Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
I had a lot of fun at last night’s tweetup of the Toronto Area Middle Grade & Young Adult Author Group. We’ve moved to a new location: The Bedford Academy near Avenue Road and Bloor. The place has a laid-back pub atmosphere; I recognized it from when I attended the National Cartoonists’ Christmas . . .
Adrienne Kress is a Toronto born actor and author who loves to play make-believe. She also loves hot chocolate. And cheese. And her cat Atticus. She is the author of two middle grade books: Alex and the Ironic Gentleman and Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate (Weinstein Books) as well as a theatre graduate of the . . .
At first I was torn between participating in Story A Day May and NaPiBoWriWee, but then I realized that I can do both. I’m using these two challenges to come up a month’s worth of picture book story ideas. I’m aiming for an average on one picture book story a day. These stories . . .
I feel very lucky to be part of the MiG Writers’ Critique Group. Recently, one of our members debuted a nonfiction book: SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD– Discover Amazing Monuments To Civilizations. Carmella Van Vleet was kind (or brave?) enough to let her fellow MiG writers interview her. Do visit our MiG Writers’ blog for . . .
National Picture Book Writing Week starts tomorrow! Founder Paul Yoo explains the event… What exactly is NaPiBoWriWee? NaPiBoWriWee stands for National Picture Book Writing Week. The goal is to write 7 picture books in 7 days. I have to clarify this by stating that I do NOT think picture book writing is . . .
Starting Sunday, May 1st: Story A Day May Challenge! Founder of the challenge, Julie Duffy, was kind enough to answer a few questions about the event for me: What exactly IS Story A Day May? Story A Day is creativity challenge for writers: write (and finish)a short story every day in May. . . .
Love this quote from Libba Bray’s latest blog post: This is the magic/curse of writing: That in crafting your fiction, you leave yourself open to sudden moments of unguarded truth, and you have to be willing to tolerate that again and again. You have to keep raising your sword and charging, . . .
