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Friday evening keynote: Zsuzsi Gartner
Last year, Zsuzsi decided to conduct a radical experiment. She went off-line, not only withdrawing from social media, but also online banking, her cell phone, texting, and even her computer. Here’s...
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Saturday morning keynote: Susin Nielsen
YA novelist and Governor General’s Award-winning writer Susin Nielsen shared her journey to authorhood. It’s an equation: 1/3 talent, 1/3 hard work, and 1/3 luck. She showed use her first diary, and...
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Query letters that work with Adrienne Kerr
Adrienne Kerr is the senior editor for commercial fiction at Penguin Canada. She’s worked in various book-oriented occupations for seventeen years (gosh, she must have started as a kid). Adrienne ran...
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Saturday night keynote: Jim C. Hines
I’d encountered Jim C. Hines before, on the pages of John Scalzi’s and Chuck Wendig’s blogs. I was curious about his penchant for cross dressing and why he would write a book about a libromancer. So,...
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Sunday morning keynote: Jane Porter
NaNoWriMo progress Sorry I haven’t been blogging as promised, but NaNoWriMo has taken over my life (!) In a totally good way though I’m happy to say that while I had an outline to follow, serendipity...
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Blue pencil and pitch
After breakfast and the keynote on Sunday morning, I had signed up for a blue pencil session with Jim C. Hines and a pitch session with Nephele Tempest, back to back. Needless to say, I was a bundle of...
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Bits and pieces: Diana Gabaldon and Jack Whyte
The thing about conferences like SiWC is that you always have a lot of choice. I’ve been blogging the sessions I attended, but at every time slot on every day, there were about ten different sessions I...
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Six questions with J.R. Cameron
John Cameron I’ve never understood why it’s become common practice to write the author bio in the 3rd person. John R. Cameron lives in Sudbury, Ontario. If you’re taking the time to read my bio, isn’t...
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It’s a wrap!
There is so much more to the Surrey International Writers’ Conference (SiWC) than I wrote about. Yes, there were a tonne (that’s metric, eh?) of sessions that I couldn’t get to, everything from...
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Mark Leslie workshop with the Sudbury Writers’ Guild
This past Thursday, November 28, Mark Lefebvre of Kobo, who writes under the pen name Mark Leslie, conducted a workshop on self-publishing for the Sudbury Writers’ guild. Mark spoke a bit about his...
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Six questions with Sarah Lashbrook
I met Sarah back in the summer at a book signing in the local Chapters. I immediately approached her about doing an interview, and of course, I bought her book! The book signing at Chapters (Sarah’s on...
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Caturday Quickies: John R. Cameron book signing at the Fromagerie Elgin Jan...
I posted my wee interview with John back in November. He’s kept in touch with me through Facebook and let me know when his signings were. Though I had to miss his Coles appearance, I wanted to get out...
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Six questions with Jane Ann McLachlan
I “met” Jane Ann through a wonderful online collective, Wordsmith Studio, following Robert Lee Brewer’s April Platform Challenge of 2012. Though I knew that many of us were writers, I had no idea Jane...
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Book review of The Breeders by Katie Lynn French
I’d picked up The Breeders a couple of years ago when author Katie French and I were both involved in Author Salon. She was one of the first people to leave the group and strike out on her own. What...
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Six questions with Renny deGroot
I recently made Renny’s acquaintance (formally) at a meeting of the Sudbury Writers’ Guild. She let us know that she had recently published her first historical novel, Family Business. Another Sudbury...
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Review of Lifeform Three by Roz Morris
I subscribe to Roz Morris’s newsletter, and when she announced that her second novel, Lifeform Three, was about to be published, and that she would pass along free ebooks for honest reviews, I jumped...
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My first twitterview as host (with Jamie Raintree, for @M2the5th)
Last night, I hosted an @M2the5th Twitterview with Jamie Raintree, author of women’s fiction. I was a little nervous, but it was a blast! For those of you who missed it, here’s the link to the Storify:...
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Brian Henry workshop, Sudbury, March 22, 2014
This afternoon, I attended my fifth Brian Henry workshop. This one, the third held in Sudbury and hosted by the Sudbury Writers’ Guild, was on “How to make your stories dramatic.” These workshops are...
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Mischief managed: The M2the5th Twitterview with Roz Morris, March 29, 2014
For my second Twitterview hosting experience, I got to quiz Roz Morris. Squeeeeee! For those of you who don’t know, Roz is the ghost writer for some 12 bestselling novels. She is also an editor and...
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Ad Astra 2014: The journey there (back again comes later!)
It’s been a challenging week. Having thrown my back out last Sunday, I was bed-bound Monday, but there was work to be done and I decided to go into work Tuesday through Thursday, hobbling like...
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