Hi Everyone, I’ll be at Saskatoon’s The Word on the Street on Sunday, September 20th. I’ll be in the TREASURE ISLAND TENT from 3:00 – 3:30, reading from Button Hill and playing a few fun storytelling games – hopefully with you! The Treasure Island Tent is right across from the Frances Morrison Library, on… Read more »
As soon as Orca sent me a copy of the cover for Button Hill, I became an instant Serena Malyon fan. Serena is the artist / illustrator Orca hired to develop the artwork for the cover and jacket. Dekker and Riley seemed to have jumped out of the book the way I imagined them, and landed… Read more »
You should be warned some Button Hill spoilers lay just beneath the surface of this blog. Dig down even a bit, and you may learn things you’ll wish you hadn’t – if you haven’t finished the story yet. Still here? Alright; remember you were warned. So I arrive at school on Wednesday, to discover this note on… Read more »
April 27th 2015 was, in the words of SpongeBob, the best day ever. But it was also a very surreal day. It was the day McNally Robinson Bookstore in Saskatoon hosted my book launch for Button Hill. I first suspected I may be crossing into the borderlands between Dayside and Nightside when I saw an… Read more »
Leading up to the release of Button Hill, I imagined the official launch at the Saskatoon McNally Robinson on April 27 at 7:00pm (you should come; there will be cookies and punch and reading) as the first big public moment in my life as an author. How wrong I was. I have experienced many wonderfully surreal… Read more »
Monday: Saskatoon McNally Robinson. My principal and I took 3 student-contest winners for lunch at Prairie Ink and to buy a book. As I rounded the top of the spiral staircase and stepped into the Children’s / YA department, I saw it. Something I have dreamed about for many years. There on the McNally Robinson… Read more »
What a good question! And it’s the first one I received via my new website from a fan, so I wanted to include my response here. If you have a question that you’re dying to ask me too, please write to me – I promise to respond, and I might include your question here too!… Read more »
There’s a whale – some scientists think it’s a blue whale – that’s heard every year as it passes through the Northeast Pacific Ocean, near Puget Sound. Its song is very much like that of other blue whales, except for one difference: it sings at a frequency of 52 hertz, about the same level as… Read more »
