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Heading to the Highlands

Whitchurch Highlands, that is. I’m on the road again this Tuesday, taking the Max Finder Mystery tour out to Stouffvile Ontario to visit with the students of Whitchurch Highlands Public School. I’ll be giving three presentations to over 180 students, which...

Video games as thematic device? You bet!

Other than the odd web-distraction game, I haven’t written about gaming much in here lately, but I have most certainly been busy playing them. I’m always a bit behind the curve on video games, but that’s out of a choice not to plunk down $500 on a...

Escape from the land of rewrites

I love rewriting my work – honestly I do! Some writers hate it, but I get a kick out of tweaking my words, tightening sentences and catching any errors I missed with the first draft. And that’s what I’ve been doing for the last week. I mentioned...

How did I get here?

I’m working – honest! But I did take some time this morning to play Grow, which Wired’s game blog calls: a surreal animated Choose Your Own Adventure. And they’re right! Start with a seed (or is it an egg?) and make choices to make it grow....

CANSCAIPers abducted by aliens

It started out as an innocent post on the CANSCAIP listserv. Someone had noticed that the membership list of the Alien Disclosure Group, looked very similar to a large portion of the CANSCAIP membership. It seems that many of Canada’s top kids writers were...