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Launching Just J

Although Patricia over at BookLust has the full scoop (as usual!), I just wanted to weigh in and say how much fun I had at the launch of Colin Frizzell’s new book, Just J at the new and terminally cool bookstore Type. Here’s some excellent photos I stole...

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...

Best spam subject line ever

This just landed in my inbox: “The Chronicles of the Rogue Pirate Ninjas: Act One.” Really. Do these spammers know about my ongoing pirate fixation? They’re getting good. I’m really tempted to click the link on this one. But, I’m no slave...

And we’re off . . .

2007 is here and it is back to work for us all. I am excited for this year because not only am I working on some great new projects, but I also get to finally see some of my past projects come to life. In 2007, watch out for a new Max Finder Mystery book, a new...