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In Vancouver For The Winter
I’m pretty addicted to travelling and it’s rare for me not to fly to Europe a couple of times a year, elsewhere in Canada once or twice, and usually some new country I’ve never been to before. Covid 19 made that impossible this year, and I was lucky that I’d travelled to Toronto in January…
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Openings to Novels I’ll Probably Never Write
I’ve noticed that any time I so much as post a deleted scene on my website, it ends up on bloody Goodreads and people start asking me where they can buy it. I start seeing reviews and star ratings and shout at my computer screen, “But that’s not a book! You can’t rate and review…
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Being a Cat Butler
Having to stay at home non-stop during the pandemic has produced the strange long-term effect that I’ve slowly devolved into a cat butler whose only functions in life are to let our two cats outside, back inside, dry said cats with a fluffy towel when they get wet, and listen to them complain about other…
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In Vancouver For The Summer
There are worse places to spend a pandemic lockdown than Vancouver, British Columbia. In fact, it would be hard for me to envision a better place to hunker down during these strange times. Here are just a few of the reasons: Vancouver features a wide range of outdoor spaces and is on a quest to…
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In England & France for the Summer
Doing a bit of traipsing about England and France, visiting with publishers and discussing various new series in the YA fantasy and thriller genres. Of course, sometimes there’s no way to avoid getting in the occasional theatre play . . . Here’s a fun fact: Britain and France have been to war against each other…
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Hiking Roman Walls & Cycling Castles
Spent a few days hiking along Hadrian’s Wall in England with my lovely agents. I bet no one told you one of the responsibilities of a literary agent was to guide their client across endless kilometres of roman wall, right? Just makes me glad I made sure that clause was in the contract as it…
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Denying Myself Chocolate
When I was a little kid, my mother read an article that said that, regardless of the type of food, 3500 calories equaled one pound. From this nugget of science she reasoned that sending my brother and I to school with a half a large bar of chocolate was the same as a packed lunch.…
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Ferius Parfax Live!
One of the more fascinating things about being an author these days is that sometimes you’ll learn that one of your characters is actually out there wandering the world. I was overjoyed to hear that actress and cosplayer Megan Kingsbury went to Glasgow ComicCon dressed as the one and only Ferius Parfax! Going above and…
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Touring Fantasy Festivals
Check out my events page if you want to know where I’ll be on the tour. I’ll try to update as soon as I get info from the organizers. One of the first things people warned me when I started my career as an author way back in 2014 was that only blockbuster authors ever…
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In Europe for the fall
I’m on a five-week book tour that’s taking me to Denmark, the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, and Ireland! I’ve spent a lot of time in the U.K. these past few years since Traitor’s Blade was first published. The main reason for this is that both my main publishers (Bonnier and Quercus) are based…