Have any great ideas for magical wonders? Enter them in the contest on howweirdcanyouget.com. It’s meant for kids, and the prize will go...

The substantive edit to the sequel to The Nexus Ring is finished. Now it’s time for polishing, polishing, polishing. And for working on...

And another one! The Nexus Ring has been nominated for the 2009 Diamond Willow, the Saskatchewan Reader’s Choice Award. Maureen

It must be that time of year. Feather Brain has been nominated for the 2010 Hackmatack Award (Atlantic Canada’s Reader’s Choice Award). I...

Feather Brain has been selected as one of ten OLA (Ontario Library Association) Best Bets for 2008 for children’s fiction. I’m thrilled,...

When I’m not editing the sequel to The Nexus Ring, I’ve been working on a new story, Witchdoctor. I’ve been struggling with it for...

We spent Monday in the mountains – a birthday lunch at our favorite restaurant in Banff, some casual hiking when the skating rink we’d...

The masses of snow that fell in December began melting last week, and a lake formed in front of our house, as the entire street tried to...

My editor, Laura, sent me a suggestion for reworking a slow part of the story. It’s an intriguing idea, and I’ve been playing with it all...

Finally, after many complications, howweirdcanyouget.com is ready! I’m not sure how to describe it – a real fictional website? An...

maureenbush.com is up and functioning. It’s not quite finished, but close enough for now. Coming soon: a map for The Nexus Ring, with...

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.” Oscar Wilde...

Now that I’ve worked through all the comments from my editor, I’m reading the entire manuscript out loud. I feel a bit silly, but it...

I’ve finally started the sometimes embarrassing process of formal editing for the sequel to The Nexus Ring. I’ve done lots of editing on...

In my no-brain-for-writing-ness, I’ve been rereading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones. It’s brilliant. When I read it, story...

I have a cold, and no brain for writing. I do have moments of energy, so I’m sorting through my office, my poor overcrowded, multitasking...

The first round of editing comments for the sequel to The Nexus Ring has arrived! The story starts at Castle Mountain (see photo). I’m...

Check out the temporary artwork for howweirdcanyouget.com, for a sample of Derek Mah’s humour (there’s a link to the right, under My...

I’ve been hacked! Internal pages for maureenbush.com (but not the top level), and then later this blog were illegally inhabited by an...

Corvus is gone. I had a crow statue perched on the tea house, named after a character in the sequel to the Nexus Ring. It disappeared...