I’m having another contest for Feather Brain. Griffith the wizard is looking for more ideas to develop into magical products; check out...

I’ve done my part for Alberta Arts Days. I drove up to Sundre and read to 70 kids in the Sundre Municipal Library. The staff were...

Fall is late here – it feels like late August, warm and mild, cold at night with a fall wind picking up, and the first leaves turning. My...

I finished the page proofs for Crow Boy and sent them off. While I worked, I made pages of notes for the third book, for ideas triggered...

The Writer’s Guild of Alberta received some last minute money for Alberta Arts Days and asked if I could drive up to Sundre for a library...

Word Press has been attacked by a worm. Derek Mah played knight in shining armour and updated my version of Word Press before I was...

I finally did it. And it’s fine coffee. I expected it to be stronger, as I was letting it steep longer than I normally do. It’s not...

I borrowed a Cooks Illustrated magazine from my niece. I’m trying to follow their instructions for making the perfect cup of coffee, and...

My desk is tolerably excavated, the kids are settled in their fall programs, the house is quiet, the *%$@!#& funding application is in,...

I’ve been putzing along on The Veil of Magic book III, and thinking about the editing to come for There’s a Witchdoctor In My...

The page proofs just arrived for Crow Boy. This is an exciting moment – it almost looks like a real book. A small crow is being used as a...

Fireweed creates a haze of purple, soft under the stark black tree trunks. When the blooms fall, the seedpods and stems create a softer...

Another trip to the mountains = more photos! Marble Canyon in Kootenay National Park is stunning now, six years after a huge fire. The...

We spent a couple of days in the Canadian Rockies, and  saw more animals than ever before: a black bear, a young moose, several mountain...

For years I’ve had about five years worth of stories queued up in my head – waiting for their turn. With two books published and two more...

We’ve had a series of wild thunderstorms in Calgary. Last night, the power went out just before a huge flash of lightning and a crash of...

I was lying in the hammock, enjoying the sunshine and letting a story idea percolate, when I came across this quote: “It’s a shame that...

I’ve been working my way through Story, by Robert McKee, a book on screenwriting. I’m finding it dense and slow but enormously useful....

Lia came home all jazzed up from a week at writing camp. The camp is Wordsworth, run by the Young Alberta Book Society (YABS), the...

I came home from Jasper rested and with a great collection of photos to trigger story ideas.