The Joy of Book Lists
This past week I received two opportunities that made my book lover’s heart sing: for 49th Shelf I was asked to put together a list … Read more
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Edmonton LitFest 2025
Welcome back everyone! It’s time to reboot the blog and come back from hiatus. Even though I don’t feel 100%, I have lots of new … Read more
Party time!
It’s just under a month until my book comes out, and I’m looking forward to my launch event at a remote resort with no internet … Read more
Maybe Next Week
Today’s blog was meant to be a review of Erica Berry’s WOLFISH, a fabulous book that I’m just starting to read for the second time. … Read more
Reading reading reading
This week I want to talk about two books I read recently that I’m not sure I fully understood. The first is Richard Powers’s PLAYGROUND, … Read more
Writing the Essay
I’ve just started using Scrivener, and have a section in my project for my next book that lists the books I want to read and … Read more
Book Review: Uncontrolled Flight
[Full disclosure: Frances is a friend and one of my writing accountability buddies.] Frances Peck’s first novel, The Broken Places, explored the interactions between an … Read more
Digital Browsing: Avoid Being Pigeonholed By Algorithms
Lately I’ve run across a few books about how our online activity limits our ability to browse, because online algorithms push our attention in the … Read more
It Takes a Village: Writing a Book
Writing a book proposal doesn’t happen in a vacuum – I’ve had lots of help along the way.
5 Favourite Books of 2020
These are five of my favourite books from 2020 – hard to choose just five!
