I have been meaning to do this ever since I had the great pleasure of seeing, and meeting, George Saunders at two separate Wordfest events in Calgary earlier this month. I got a bit of face-time with him (even sat in the back seat of a car with him on the way to dinner and […]
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 […]
The 12 Author Days of Christmas – First Day: Art Slade
So I have just finished a big rewrite on my new manuscript. What a great feeling. And I’ve decided – no book-writing till 2016. Focus on other things. It dawned on me this morning that I’d like to do my own 12 Days of Christmas – but in this case, 12 authors whom I treasure […]