To everyone concerned about writers in Canada: please take a few minutes to watch this video from the Writers’ Union of Canada, about...

My CKUA interview was not aired yesterday; apparently I was misinformed, or there was a change in plans. I’ve been told it will be next...

I wrote in a cafe yesterday, driven out of the house by a plumbing catastrophe that resulted in too much dust and mold for my lungs to...

Resource Links http://www.resourcelinksmagazine.ca/ has reviews for Crow Boy and Cursed. They’re both posted on my website...

I’ve had two media interviews in the past couple of weeks: Wednesday with Brenda Finley for Bookmark on CKUA radio, airing Sunday...

Saturday afternoon – another workshop at the Alexandra Writer’s Centre http://www.alexandrawriters.org, with Edmontonian Marty Chan...

My husband and I have started work on audio clips for Cursed! I have no idea when they’ll actually be finished and posted on the...

After nine days of bitter cold and ever-deepening snow, it’s been warming for a couple of days, and is now balmy (well, for Calgary in...

I spent Saturday at the Alexandra Writers Centre, taking a course on first person fiction with Rona Altrows. I thought I might discover...

I have a shiny new idea – thanks to Karen Willsey Bass for the term – and it’s so appealing. Sometimes a story idea comes with such...

Through my fall of world building, I’ve been collecting an ever-growing pile of research notes, story tidbits and images. I kept ignoring...

We had a lovely Christmas, alternating between chaotic, quiet and exhausted. Now we’re settling in to a clean house and a quiet week....

1. Choose favorites among the many ways to fill time at Christmas. As my kids slowly recover from mono, we chose which Christmas...

I love Christmas, but I don’t love all the distractions from writing. Here’s what Stephen King wrote about interruptions, in On...

Prairie Fire has a review of Crow Boy; it’s sixth in the table of contents, click to open the PDF file. http://ojs.lib.umanitoba.ca/prair...

I’ve been world building. That sounds powerful, doesn’t it? Sometimes it feels rather small, as I’m aware of all the things I don’t yet...

After a Christmas caroling party Saturday night (with some good singing once we’d warmed up), Sunday was immensely quiet. The girls were...

Both my kids have mono, so things are a little slow around here. They’re slowly improving, and in the meantime we simplify and nap. It’s...