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
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
A No Relation Book Trailer Book trailers are all the rage these days in the publishing world. My great publisher, Random House/McClelland & Stewart has […] June 27, 2014
No Relation is a Number One Bestseller I think this may be the first time a novel of mine has occupied the top spot on the bestsellers […] June 23, 2014
No Relation: Chapter 17 Here’s Chapter 17 of No Relation, the final chapter in my new novel published by McClelland & Stewart. In this closing episode, […] June 19, 2014
