Category: Writing Life

  • A.W.O.L.

    Maybe you noticed that I haven’t been around this week. I had some sad news on the weekend and it pushed me off track a bit. A former neighbour of ours passed away during the summer and we just found out when another neighbour invited us to a memorial service. I usually talked to Beryl…

  • Do You Vote?

    We had a federal election yesterday in Canada, and I dutifully trudged over to my local polling station to cast my vote. The only mercy in Canada is that we don’t have to listen to the candidates for very long – this election was called at the beginning of September and we voted October 14.…

  • The Cranberry Debate

    Here’s a topic of discussion that turns up every year at Thanksgiving. Do you and your family eat cranberry jelly with turkey? If so, do you buy it in the can? If so – this is the real question – do you slip it from the can so that it’s displayed in the shape of…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    It’s turkey day here in Canada. The bird is almost ready to go and the table is set. The weather is beautiful – the leaves are just starting to change and it’s supposed to be a sunny day. This is going to be fun. So, wherever you are, take a moment and think of five…

  • Typo in FALLEN

    Audree found a typo. Yikes! There’s an ad on the very last page of FALLEN for GUARDIAN, coming October 2009. The copy on that page lists the heroine of GUARDIAN as Lilia, but that’s not true. Lilia is the heroine of FALLEN. Her daughter Delilia is the heroine of GUARDIAN. Lilia and Montgomery will appear…