Talented Friends

  • This weekend in Leaksdale, Ontario the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario is holding its annual L.M. Montgomery Day featuring lectures and discussions by Benjamin Lefebvre, Vanessa Brown, Kate MacDonald [...]

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  • I had the summer all planned. MAY: Submit the next draft of the Maud novel after an incredible ten days doing social media for the National Reading Campaign's Reading Town [...]

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  • Over the past year I have had the pleasure of getting to know Karen Krossing. A compassionate writer, she is committed to understanding and helping other writers -- including me. I [...]

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  • Well it is summer and I've been traveling and being terrible about keeping up with the blog. But what I have been doing is reading. Reading books by writers I [...]

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  • K.A. Barson Charlotte: Cuts it Out

    Today, I have the privilege of announcing the Canadian exclusive cover reveal of K.A. Barson's Charlotte Cuts it Out, releasing April 5, 2016. In conjunction with Tirzah Price’s blog, The Compulsive Reader [...]

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  • The past year I've been in a process of reinventing myself. It has been a journey into discovering my sense of self worth and what it means to show up [...]

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  • We were driving to an L.M. Montgomery photography exhibit, featuring some of the pictures she had taken throughout her life, when Rachel McMillan read the news. The three of us [...]

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  • I'm so excited to welcome critically acclaimed YA science fiction author, Amy Rose Capetta. Amy Rose is a fellow VCFAer who inspires me with her commitment to writing, her talent [...]

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  • Andrea Lindsay and I met in Montreal during the late 1990s at the large bookstore where we both worked. She was just starting out as a musician and I was finishing [...]

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  • "'What do you take me for?' he asked. 'Do you think I'm the kind of fellow that'd would leave you out there at Brewster's when you're so homesick, just because [...]

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  •   I have known Laura Ingalls Wilder since I was seven years old when my parents purchased the entire set for me for my birthday. At first I didn't know what [...]

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  • copyright, Yuka Kajihara Last night, Laura Robinson, Benjamin Lefebvre and I gave a talk at the North York Central Library in Toronto, Ontario, The Canadian Home Front: L.M. Montgomery's [...]

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