Update: I recently received my contributor’s copy of Urban Green Man, including a green man pendant as an extra thank-you. How nice to have a souvenir from my first poetry sale! This summer I’m taking a break from blogging and critiquing in order to finish the new draft of my work-in-progress, “Spies are from Mars.” As of today I […]
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I am bursting to tell you my publishing news, times two: My short story “Wild Caving,” is going to be published in the Amprosia anthology, which launches in two weeks. My poem “Fallow God,” is going to be published in the Urban Green Man Anthology, with an introduction by Charles De Lint. The Green Man
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Witchlanders I attended the WCDR breakfast meeting this morning. Speaker Lena Coakley was excellent, laying out the seven things she wished she had known about story, before she published her first novel. Lena is the author of Witchlanders, a high fantasy YA novel. Some of her tips were: Learn about plot from screenwriters Know what
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My latest poem, “Fallow God,” is being published by Edge in their Urban Green Man Anthology. The book will be launched at When Words Collide in Calgary this August. I feel very lucky to be included. Happy Reading!
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I have been less active on this blog lately because I’m starting a new podcasting project. I’m going to be podcasting my novel, “Marmalade, Cat Detective,” at my new Marmalade Cat Detective blog. I also have a long-term plan for writing a book on how to write and produce children’s plays and videos. I’ve had
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I had a very positive rejection for a poem I submitted to Strange Horizons recently. The editor suggested two other markets I could try and invited me to submit to Strange Horizons again. Yeah!
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I’m really enjoying running the Silver Birch Awards and Red Maple Awards programs this year as a librarian. It gives me a chance to read all the award-nominated books! I think this video captures a little bit of that magic feeling of discovery. More about the books and the club to follow. Happy reading…
I took away some great tidbits from Wayson Choy’s talk at the WCDR breakfast this morning. It was the first time I have attended one of their monthly breakfast meetings although I’ve been to the related Ontario Writers Conference. When I first stepped into the dining room at the Ajax Convention Centre, it reminded me
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This year I participated in National Novel Writing Month. It was great fun. I wrote a complete, short novel draft, mostly in the mornings between 5:00 am and 6:15, that is to say, before work. The information about my novel is on their site http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/cerealboxreader but it will expire eventually. For archival purposes, here’s what I wrote…
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I won’t be blogging much in the month of November. I have a new novel in the works and I’m trying to get the rough draft done as part of National Novel Writing Month. If you haven’t heard of NaNoWriMo, the link to my NaNo profile is here and the link to my novel synopsis is