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Icelandic Adventure – Part 2 19 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
The Icelandic horses are everywhere but in the interior “deserts”. Beautiful animals, the very same breed brought from Norway in the ninth century. The Icelanders are very careful to protect their...
Icelandic Adventure 5 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
Geysir Called Strokkur I came home from three and a half weeks in Iceland just over a week ago. What a trip! What a country! I’ve never been anywhere where the violence that shaped the landscape...
Sabbatical 4 Jul 2013 | 06:31 am
There’s been a gap in my blog, and here’s the reason why: I’m giving myself a six-month sabbatical. Webster’s Dictionary defines sabbatical as a year or half year of absence for study, rest,...
Nix Minus One News 4 Jul 2013 | 06:29 am
I was happy to find out from friends that Nix Minus One was one of the books chosen on CBC Radio (Shelagh Rogers) for the Children’s Book Panel 2013. Here’s the link: www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter ...
Summer Reading….. 27 May 2013 | 05:35 pm
I’m very happy with the Kirkus review of Nix Minus One, which you can find on Nix’s home page on this website. And I’m taking some time off to read. True Confessions: I can’t read fiction when I’m w...
Don Aker – YA Writer Profile 21 May 2013 | 02:00 pm
CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers) (repeat that with your eyes closed) asked me if I’d write a profile of the YA writer Don Aker for the Fall/Winter issue...
My Week in Calgary – Part 3 14 May 2013 | 02:42 pm
I visited two of the Calgary Public Library branches on my trip out west – branches, so I was told by Anne O’Sullivan, who drove me to both of them, that only rarely got visits from authors. Thank...
My Week in Calgary – Part 2 6 May 2013 | 02:00 pm
More on my recent visit to Calgary, courtesy of Pajama Press. A week ago Tuesday, we spent the day with Heather Parsons, a sales rep from Michael Reynolds and Associates. Bright, energetic, gr...
My Week in Calgary – Part 1 29 Apr 2013 | 02:48 pm
Pajama Press, my publishers for Nix Minus One, flew me to Calgary last week. And what a week! So much went on, that there’ll be at least two instalments to this blog. The major event was the Calga...
On the road again…. 22 Apr 2013 | 04:15 pm
I had a wonderful morning in Bedford South School the week before last. The grade four students had each written a short book about an animal of their choice, all the way from a squid to a red-eye...
