Newsy Bits

My Interview with Art Slade

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Check out my interview with Arthur Slade, award-winning author of The Hunchback Assignments series over on the The Enchanted Inkpot blog!

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Some Great Early Reviews for WITCHLANDERS, Meeting Kelley Armstrong, My Blog Tour and More!

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Some Great Early Reviews for WITCHLANDERS, Meeting Kelley Armstrong, My Blog Tour and More!

Two Starred Reviews! Witchlanders isn’t coming out until August 30th, but it’s already picked up two starred reviews!! The first is a glowing one from Kirkus Reviews.  My favorite quote, which I’d be perfectly happy to have carved on my tombstone, is : Exquisite storytelling plus atmospheric worldbuilding equals one stunning teen debut. Meep! Read the full review here. And yesterday, Google Alerts sent me a link to a review in Publishers Weekly, which actually has a better synopsis than any I have written for the book.  My favorite quote from this one:  Plot twists unfold...

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Newsy Bits

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Newsy Bits

I was delighted to open my mail on Friday and find a copy of Reality Imagined: Stories of Identity and Change, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson. My short story “Mouse” is included along with stories by a some great Canadian authors like Jean Little, Linda Holdman, Sheree Fitch, Kathy Stinson and Ted Staunton.  I was really thrilled to be included.  “Mouse” is a story about a mother’s mental illness as seen though the eyes of a child who doesn’t understand it.  It won second prize in the Toronto Star’s short story contest some years back, and...

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