Authors 9 and 10 are actually author/illustrators, and they are exceptional. I’ve known Ashley Spires now for a few years and am constantly amazed and almost alarmed by her exceptional imagination and talent. This is the woman who is responsible for my favorite book ever featuring a cat, the marvellous “Binky the Space Cat” series. […]
12 Author Days of Christmas – Kenneth Oppel
Author #8 hardly needs an introduction. He’s the biggest name in YA in Canada. I have only known Kenneth Oppel from afar for a long time. But this year I had the chance to hang out with him a bit at two authors’ festivals, Calgary’s Wordfest and the Vancouver International Writers’ Festival. I’m embarrassed to […]
12 Author Days of Christmas – Teresa Toten & Joanne Levy
Today I decided to focus on two authors (6 and 7 because I’m going to run out of days before Christmas) who I don’t know very well, but would like to get to know better. Truthfully there are a lot of Canadian children’s/YA authors out there who I don’t know well but would like to […]
12 Author Days of Christmas – #5 – Kevin Sylvester
A weird thought struck me as I was about to write this, and that’s that I’ve actually only met Kevin Sylvester three times in person. It’s weird because I feel like he’s a really close friend. And then it dawns on me that, wait … that’s just who Kevin is. He makes the people around […]
12 Author Days of Christmas – Marsha Skrypuch & Valerie Sherrard
Because I got started late I’m doing the third and fourth days of Christmas today, featuring Marsha Skrypuch and Valerie Sherrard. Not only have these two women written oodles of award-winning novels – in fact, if I have my numbers correct, they are practically neck-and-neck, with Marsha having published 21 and Valerie at 20 (tell […]
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