July 7, 2010 | Posted by admin Well … “Women of the Apocalypse” kept a quiet profile, but with steady determination, the book kept selling and garnering interest. And then, out of the blue, we took the Auroras by surprise and won!
Yes, the 2010 Prix Aurora Awards for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy of 2009 announced Women of the Apocalypse as the Best [...]
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April 28, 2010 | Posted by admin As of last month, I have a new living room window.
It is a by-product of my new house. Well, the house isn’t new, but it’s new for me.
If we go back nine years, I moved back to Edmonton into an apartment that overlooked the University farm. My living room window then looked over a maze [...]
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January 10, 2010 | Posted by admin Who is an Apocalyptic Woman?
The question ran through my head a dozen times – no a triple thousand dozen times – these last months as I went on a selling spree for my book.
I sat at the same red Christmas table cloth in different locations – a bookstore, a library, a yoga studio, a used [...]
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by admin Eileen, one of the authors I collaborated with on both Seven Deadly Sins and Women of the Apocalypse, wrote an interesting article on our collaboration at Cheryl Kaye Tardiff’s blog. Check it out!
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by admin Take off.
Our book was launched in Edmonton last weekend. What a whirlwind of cake, friends, supporters, books, pens, laughter and fun.
All four writers were there … even though one lives in London, Ontario. We made a stand up poster of him, so he was there in spirit.
A talented photographer friend of mine, Tracy Kolenchuk, took [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by admin The last six months have been a bit of a ride – not only writing and publishing my first novella, but being plunged into the depths of marketing. In the midst of it all, I have not had as much time to just do what I love – write.
Today, I got re-inspired. A writing club [...]
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October 20, 2009 | Posted by admin I had never been to an event before that had the sign: “Full Pat-Down In Effect.”
I waited in line to enter a Muay-Thai fighting tournament: six amateur fights and two professional fights were on the card. Five rounds. Amateur rounds are two minutes each, professionals last three minutes. When you’re watching someone get hit, those minutes seem pretty [...]
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October 7, 2009 | Posted by admin I read stories today.
Not only did I read stories, but I read many of them to a group of kids.
Grades One through Six. I read my little story about the chickadee, an excerpt from “The Black Cauldron”, “Zen Shorts” (a picture book) and even, (upon request) “What the Seasons Bring” (my flash fiction piece about [...]
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October 2, 2009 | Posted by admin The cover to our new book, that is. It’s a beautiful cover, as it should be, for I have worked hard and long on this anthology. Ok maybe not long – the project was a short one. But, trust me – it meant I worked harder on this one. Sweat, blood and tears. Lots of [...]
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September 10, 2009 | Posted by admin When you’re a young adult, I don’t think you really know who your mentors are. If you asked me at the age of nineteen, “who influences you the most?” I would have blithely replied “my friends”.
In my 3rd year of university, I started working part-time at the University as a Peer Health Educator. It was [...]
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