The Leacock Medal: Humbled in Orillia I didn’t think I could be any more shocked than when I miraculously won the 2008 Leacock Medal for […] April 30, 2015
The 2015 Leacock Medal Shortlist – I’m honoured Up in Orillia this morning, the wonderful folks who kindle the Leacock flame in this country unveiled the shortlist […] April 1, 2015
Eight years later… It’s hard to believe, but eight years after writing my first blog post in this space, it’s time for my […] December 31, 2014
Poles Apart manuscript is finished… It’s always nice, even a thrill, to write the words “The End” at the bottom of the page. I […] December 14, 2014
My talk to the Ontario Writers’ Conference Earlier this year, I was invited to give the closing address at the Ontario Writers’ Conference. It was not one […] October 29, 2014
Update: TBLP – the stage musical Yesterday, at the Vancouver Writers Fest, I had the honour of participating on a panel discussing the adaptation of […] October 27, 2014
Tag, I’m it, on the CanLit Blog Hop My friend and fellow writer Farzana Doctor ‘tagged’ me for this CanLit blog hop challenge. No ice bucket is required. […] September 1, 2014
I’m out of the blocks on my 5th novel… Looking back through the archives of this blog, I seem to have a tradition of announcing when I’ve actually started […] August 20, 2014
No Relation to be published in Taiwan Well, it’s official. Last week, we inked our first foreign publishing deal through the international network of my wonderful agent, […] July 29, 2014
Hanging in on the bestsellers list No Relation has now been on the market for ten weeks. So you can imagine how thrilled I am that […] July 28, 2014
