The Coast covered the run-up to my salon in Halifax this Monday night, and it’s wonderful. Steph knows grief, and as a fellow novelist, she asked: is it taxing to support Notes for the Everlost? Do I have to retread raw ground to talk about the book? Yes. But everyone else has some, too.
Read MoreNOTES FOR THE EVERLOST is in the world and I am on the moon. Kind of stunned, if I’m being honest, that eleven years of pain and growth and love and blood and sweat have culminated in something I can hold in my hands—something you can hold in your hands.
Read MoreToday is one week to the release of Notes for the Everlost! It’s a tender time. Please treat me as you would a vinegar mother, one of those slime clumps of bacteria and fermentation brought about by the vinegar's boorishly predictable anxiety, nerves, and self-doubt.
Read MoreLexicon Books invites you to the launch of NOTES FOR THE EVERLOST: A FIELD GUIDE TO GRIEF at a gorgeous hundred-year old barn in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Click through for further details, or hop over to the event page on Facebook. Hope to see you there!
Read MoreThis book is a family-heirloom treasure. A lazy-day cuddle, a dreamscape by the woodstove, a favourite when the grandkids come over. I'd gush over this beautiful creation even if I weren't in it! Order your copy today for ocean-watchers in your life.
Read MoreTD Book Week was a terrific, well-oiled machine of a tour. School after school, libraries, a children's museum, hundreds of faces: magically healing stuff. It's such a big deal to hear kids laugh at your stories, and shout at you in unison to give 'em anudder.
Read MoreIn the age of Trumpism, it's more important than ever to teach history and empathy to Canada's kids. I spoke to CKBW Radio in London, Ontario about bringing Chanie and 'The Secret Path' into classrooms—and how kids are naturally empathetic, imaginative creatures.
Read MoreI've been chosen for TD Canadian Children's Book Week 2017, a national effort that brings Maritime authors and illustrators to the Yukon, Manitobans to Newfoundland, and Albertans to Nunavut for a dizzying week of readings and workshops.
Read MoreI'm thrilled to be presenting, reading, growling, and signing books at this weekend's Word on the Street Festival in Halifax! Bring your little beasts to the festival's wonderful homebase of the Halifax Central Library this Saturday, September 17, 2016.
Read MoreOh, the joy when teachers send me their students' monster-inspired art: silly werewolves. Big-hearted werewolves. Werewolves eating doughnuts. Regular kids love to imagine regular life in irregularly power-full, growly ways. Thrills!
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