from John Gardner, On Becoming A Novelist: “Like other kinds of intelligence, the storyteller’s is partly natural, partly trained. It is...

Winter has started with a great shebang here in Calgary. We had a lovely long fall, and then a winter storm hit. We’re now deep in cold...

I get to play now, researching all sorts of topics, following threads, discovering oddities like the Welsh instruments the pibgorn and...

While much of Cursed! is drawn from my family life, I have said we’ve never been cursed. This, I now remember, is not true. I grew up in...

First reviews for Cursed!: http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol17/no11/cursed.html and Crow Boy: http://umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol17...

I’ve discovered I need to remind myself I have four books out. Sometimes I forget that this is a cool thing. For so many people, getting...

Somehow my multi-tasking week became a multi-tasking month. As I cleared some things off my desk, I became inspired to clear more, and...

With the spirit man at Monkeyshines…

My dear friend Rona Altrows is launching her second collection of short stories, Key In Lock. Once again, I’m having trouble inserting an...

Cursed! is launched into the world, at a lovely launch attended by many of my favorite people. They energized me through a terrible...

I think I need this week to be twice as long. Then I’d be able to get to everything I want to do. Monday we hosted a family Thanksgiving...

Delivered today. What could be better than receiving a box of books you wrote? Having the box labeled with the title of the book (this is...

Orca has created lovely artwork for the launch poster, but for some reason I can’t upload it to this site. Instead, I’ll issue my own...

They’re here! Cursed has arrived. Maureen

Here’s the same view, on Thursday, after a wind storm and heavy rain. Maureen

The photo: the view from my office floor Sunday afternoon (I was stretching out my back). The leaves are turning the most beautiful...

With a book launch planned for October 16, it’s definitely time to post the cover art for Cursed! Eric Orchard designed the cover (he...

Sunday we drove out to the Tyrrell Museum so I could check details in the sequel to Feather Brain. So far I’ve discovered three totally...

Ahoy Me Mateys. Sunday is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and we’ve got work to do. We need a day filled with pirattitude. And, of course, rum...