According to my daughter who lives for story, studying for a math exam and desperate to find something, anything interesting in it: “I...

Wednesday I spent the day at Park Meadows School, in Lethbridge. The entire school (K – 5) is reading Feather Brain, as a One School, One...

I’m doing a little happy dance. I have a new, complete manuscript. It needs editing, but I have a first draft, beginning to end, all...

I’ve been getting fan mail. I really enjoy hearing from kids. I love to write because I love the process of writing (well, most of the...

Here’s the cover for Crow Boy. I love that crow! Maureen

I just realized my blog hasn’t been much about writing lately. That’s because – well, because I haven’t been writing much. I’ve been...

The snow is piled waist-high where we’ve shoveled. It’s cold and icily beautiful. A magpie digging through the snow over the...

I have a growing must-have list for when I’m rich and famous. These are not my own fantasies, I have to assert. They come from my kids...

As the snow gets deeper, I miss my garden. I fill the birdfeeder to draw birds into the yard, and watch squirrels feast instead. I pour...

Intriguing books that flowed through our house this season, in one direction or another: Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking – huge and...

Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small, Was singing! Without any presents at all! He HADN”T stopped Christmas from coming!...

When I was in High School, four of us went downtown to sing Christmas carols outside The Bay. They were paying us as a fund raiser for...

It’s time to conclude the fall 2009 howweirdcanyouget.com contest. And the winner is . . . Beth, 11, who sent in a story idea that...

I learn the strangest rules of grammar. For example, in Feather Brain, Lucas says, “I pretended that Kyle was a Tyrannosaurus Rex and...

Hey, Crow Boy’s done! I just realized that. It’s completely out of my hands now (which is a little freaky). But done. I’m packing up my...

Monday I worked with all three Veil of Magic stories, and found it a little disorienting. In the morning I had a great time talking with...

I’ve just sent in the page proofs for Crow Boy. It almost looks like a book! The publication date: April 9, 2010. Now I can get back to...

I’ve returned from the retreat peaceful and quiet. Too quiet. Caught a cold, lost my voice. I’m now into day three of whispering. I’m...