Those people who won copies of Burn are ( Read more... )

 Hi everyone, just letting you all know I'm giving away 6 copies of BURN. All you have to do to get into the draw is to leave me a comment on LJ, facebook or twitter.

Here's a review if you'd like to see what the book is about.

www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol17/no11/burn.html

I dislike when people automatically fit manuscripts into mg/ya categories because to the age of the character - assuming children don't like to read about other children younger than themselves. I believe that if a story is thought provoking, the plot riveting enough, and the character believable children are not going to be turned off by the age ( Read more... )

International Festival of Authors Toronto

TD Canadian Saturday, October 24, 2009

Children’s Literature 1:00pm

Award Reading: Studio Theatre

235 Queens Quay West

Roundtable: Saturday, October 24, 2009

4:00pm

Studio Theatre

235 ( Read more... )

The Great Canadian Copyright Consultations - A "How to" Guide for Creators 
on Submissions

A few minutes of your time could help shape the government's promised 
copyright bill!

C

anadians have answered the Federal Government's invitation to air their 
views in this summer's Copyright Consultations with enthusiasm, sending in 
thousands of responses.

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The Official Press release is out. The CCBC awards have been announced and Libertad has been named a finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature award.

Never expect to win these things (can't expect anything in this business) but I have as much chance as  the other finalists and they have as much chance as me. If I win it's a bonus. If I don' ( Read more... )

 It's been like forever since I updated. What's happened since then? Let's see...

Libertad won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz award. Won the Golden Oak Award. Was shortlisted for the 2010 MYRCA awards, won the Once Upon the World Children's book award (given by the Simon Wisenthal center in LA). It was also named an honor book for the Canadian Library ( Read more... )

It's April for pete's sake. A SNOW DAY?

Even the dog was depressed to wake up and have to go pee out in this... (the snow not the house)


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The Canada East Chapter of the

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)

presents our Annual Spring Writing Conference:

It's a retreat, it's workshops, it's fun! It's

The Spring Thing 2009!

April 24-26, 2009

Kempenfelt Conference Centre

Barrie, Ontario

Featuring:

Lisa Graff, Associate Editor, Farrar Straus & Giroux

Kathy ( Read more... )

My last post was FOUR WEEKS AGO. Holy crap. Guess I've been a little busy ( Read more... )