Such a big day today—receiving the very first batch of finished copies of NOTES FOR THE EVERLOST, and heading towards the big launch day of September 18, 2018. Pre-order your copy now and if you’re local, come to our Lunenburg launch party!

Lexicon 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. Further details here, or hop over to the event page on Facebook. See you there!

Karen Walrond and I had a fabulous conversation about everything that matters—the reinvention of life, the integration of pain, the nourishment of creative effort, and the importance of pivotal 'white space' moments. Have a listen!

This 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.

TD 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.

We make magic bigger by demystifying the creator. It's a funny thing. When a regular real-life person replies to a tweet or a photo or a handwritten letter, the regular real-lifeness of that interaction turns into possibility. 'You could do this, too!'

I'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 workshops.

I'm thrilled to be presenting, reading, and signing books at this weekend's Word on the Street Festival in Halifax! Bring your little beasts to the festival's homebase of the Halifax Central Library this Saturday, September 17, 2016.

Oh, 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!

If I Were a Zombie is a boisterous trip through the twisted delights of a child’s imagination. Fun and gross at the same time: what could be better? A delightful, entertaining book sure to be a hit with kids. —National Reading Campaign

Let's raise every glass of green monster punch to Nimbus, Eric Orchard, Woozles, the Halifax Zombie Walk folks, and every other little goblin, robot, and alien who came out to the book launch at the Halifax Central Library to celebrate. Brains!

Evan and Ben will never fully recover from their backstage pass to the CBC Charlottetown for our interview with Mainstreet. Stars and rainbows! They got hooked up with big headphones to do the daily plug. And again. And again. #giggles

"What I do like is a beautiful picture book, a kid-friendly one that my children delight in as much as I do, and so to that end, the undead notwithstanding, Kate Inglis’ latest book, If I Were A Zombie, illustrated by Eric Orchard, totally delivers..."

Four sessions of dozens of kids in one day. No matter where I am, it always starts off the same: What's the biggest library rule? ... BE QUIET they say, in that obedient sing-songy chorus. One kid in the back says NO FLYING SIDE KICKS.

If I Were A Zombie—monsters-and-magical-creatures poems for preschoolers and early-grade goofballs, as illustrated by the award-winning Eric Orchard—is here! Time to crack out my classroom growl, the one that makes the kids giggle.

Play with words. Have fun and someday, when you're running through a sprinkler or eating a hot dog or drifting off to sleep, you'll feel a tap on your shoulder, and a voice in your ear like it's being whispered through a tin can telephone. Be ready.

I am thrilled to share the shiny, wonder-eyed news that the excellent Eric Orchard is illustrating the book! Right now! And I'm crying again as he sends sketches through—although this time, it's more cry-giggling. Breakdancing zombies will do that.

When you make space for art, you become a magnet for other people who make space for art. And people like that are weird and rare and fantastic. They throw wood onto our fires and they make the room warm. Oddity fuels oddity when everything else is beige.

“Never didactic but wisely intentional, it is just a matter of time before The Flight of the Griffons takes off and lands in classrooms and homes everywhere. Missy Bullseye oughta rub shoulders with Harry Potter on the world stage. This is not hyperbole...”

“Flight of the Griffons is much more than an adventure story. Flight of the Griffons could be read as a stand-alone, but to have read the first one in the series would make it even more satisfying! So buy both volumes!”