News
April 21-13, 2010 -- I'll be doing a 3-day workshop at the MASC Young Authors and Illustrators Conference
October 22, 2009 -- I'll be reading at the Kids Lit Gala, Ben Franklin Place, Ottawa. 7 p.m.
October 2009 -- Wild Geese pub date is now fall 2010.
August 2009 -- Greener Grass short-listed for the Geoffrey Bilson Award
May 2009 -- Egghead is voted Red Maple Honour Book
March 2009 -- the Canadian Library Association nominated:
- Egghead for the 2009 Young Adult Book of the Year Award
- Greener Grass for the 2009 Children's Book of the Year Award
February 2009. Egghead is short-listed for the Snow Willow Award.
October 2008 -- Egghead is short-listed for the Red Maple Award.
Check out the winner of the
All Saints H.S. Egghead Cover Contest.
Congratulations Eric G.!
Wild Geese contract is signed -- the sequel will be in stores Spring 2010.
Egghead free Educator's Guide is ready! It has over 40 pages of activities and questions to help students explore the book and its themes. Email me for your copy.
November 17, 2007 -- Egghead gets launched!
September 16-22, 2007 -- Off to a weeklong writing workshop in Nova Scotia given by editor Peter Carver and author Kathy Stinson.
August 27,2007 -- Interviewed by Austin Comerton on the Gaelic Hour. Click here to listen.
April 10, 2007. I received a $10,000 Canada Council for the Arts Grant to research Wild Geese.
Egghead is in the final stages of editing and will be available in bookstores this January.