What Sense and Serendipity (or, “From Fact to Fiction”) When Friday, September 16, 2011 7:00pm – Where (map) Port Williams, NS Other InfoPlease join me for an evening at The Port Williams Library! I’m giving a presentation on how my passion for historical research feeds my fiction. (there will be a Q&A portion [...]
read on... →Early in the summer I began working with Sarah Smith, an amazing young film maker and alum of the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts Teen Academy on a project inspired by The Virgin Cure. It was an honour to work with her and I have to say, when I viewed the final edit of [...]
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Just wanted to let you know about two events that are around the corner, and one that’s coming up in October.
This Sunday, September 11th, I’ll be popping by the Chapters in Dartmouth, NS (41 Mic Mac Blvd.), to take part in their fall preview event. If you’re in the Halifax/Dartmouth area and would [...]
read on... →Things have been hoppin’ since my last post and the photo above sums up the past week pretty well.
Across the Pond…
For readers in the UK who’ve been asking when The Virgin Cure will reach their shores, I’m pleased to announce that the novel now has a home with the wonderful UK publisher, Orion. [...]
read on... →There’s a fair bit of excitement in my world these days as I move from editing mode to the three short months before the launch of The Virgin Cure in Canada. This past week I celebrated both my birthday and the arrival of the “pages” for the book. Along with marking yet another year older [...]
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When I was a child I loved finding things…a jar of my grandmother's old buttons, a cigar box filled with boy scout badges and river stones, a flouncy party dress pushed to the back of my mother's closet - circa 1955. With every relic I discovered, there came a story. Real or imagined, the tales that surrounded each object were magic, making the 'thing' more immediate, something more than it was before I'd found it.
Fact or fiction, fantastic, joyful or sad, stories make us more than we were before we found them. Welcome to my shoebox of buttons, sealing wax and scribblings.
Glad to meet you! - posted on 18/05/2012 00:48:02
