Reading Romance
It’s been a heck of a summer here, filled with family and friends and travel and very, very little time online. Today, it’s absolutely pouring rain, a morning designed to …
Agent Questions
In my day job as coordinator of the Surrey International Writers’ Conference, I get a LOT of questions in my email inbox. While many of the queries are conference-related, an …
Milestones
My baby girl became a teenager last week. I am ever more aware of the truth of something author Linda Grimes said to me once: mothers have long days and …
Blue Monday
Apparently today is the blue-est day of the year, in terms of people’s moods, at least here where it was a story on the news tonight. I’m not sure how …
Rod Stewart on Writing
Happy new year! The fact that I’m saying so on the 14th of January should give you some idea how busy the first two weeks of 2013 have turned out to …
A Few Good Reads
With eleven days to go in 2012, it’s entirely likely this list may change or at least grow before the end of the year. But I got thinking today about …
Who are we?
The grey, drippy skies of a West Coast December invite reflection. It’s a time for philosophical discussions over warm beverages and taking personal inventory. At the moment, I’m also mulling …
Remembrance
We remember. Both the men pictured here lived long after the war. But they served. We remember them, and all the others who have given their youth, their peace of …
Blogging at SiWC.ca today
I’ve gathered up some of the links to blogs written by this year’s SiWC attendees about the conference and have posted them on the blog at the SiWC website today. …
Interrupting the crickets…
My good friend Tyner Gillies mentioned me in his blog post this afternoon. It didn’t occur to me until he posted it that agreeing to be mentioned meant he’d point …