On November 20th, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Faith Family Books and Gifts in Toronto hosted an event with more than 30 Canadian authors at their store in Toronto. Here are two photos taken by author Deborah Gyapong, one of me and one of the reading areas. You can see many more photos on Deb's blog here and here. [ Read more...]
So last night, I'm reading a book by Lois McMaster Bujold called Miles Errant, which is really two books and a novella in one, and after finishing the novella (which is very good, by the way) and after hitting myself upside the head for not seeing the ending coming, I happen to glance at the [ Read more...]
I spent Saturday in Pickering at Michael's Family Bookstore, along with about a dozen other authors. Here I am with my little section of the tent we had – in front of the store. And on Sunday I had a booth in the Artist's Alley at the Markham Classic Car Show just off Main Street. As [ Read more...]
I posted a little while ago that Shaded Light and another book of mine, Hot Apple Cider, were both nominated to be the "one book" for the Church Library’s of Ontario "One Book / One Conference" October 3rd along with a number of other great books, including The Shack and The Book of Negroes. (See complete list.) [ Read more...]
I saw the upcoming topic for Mystery Reader - “Scandinavian Mysteries” – and thought, “Nothing to do with me.” A few days later, I got an email about it and deleted it. Several weeks passed. Then, one day while my husband and I were babysitting our grandson, Leif, we got talking, for some reason, about [ Read more...]
Shaded Light has been nominated for the Church Library Association of Ontario’s "One Book/ One Conference" discussion, which will be held at their Fall Conference on October 3rd at Tyndale University and Seminary in Toronto. There will be a discussion time focused on one book, by a Canadian author, that all participants are to have read [ Read more...]
Although my choice of reading material is normally mysteries, I’ve been reading books on writing memoir and memoirs lately, trying to get a feel for what is acceptable or perhaps desirable. Just finished Who Do You Think You Are? by Alyse Myers. A difficult story of a young girl growing up in a dysfunctional, somewhat [ Read more...]
They all said I needed an advertising gimmick of some sort to give out at mystery conventions. Some people give out poker chips, wedding rings, rubber bands, tea bags, peanut butter cups, lollipops – you name it, it's been used. So – what could I use for Shaded Light ? I thought of a light [ Read more...]
I suppose every writer likes to talk about how he or she wrote the "first one." Shaded Light wasn't my first published book, but it was my first mystery. And it took a lot of sweat, and a lot of time. I believe I've loved mysteries for as long as I can remember. When I [ Read more...]
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