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…
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…
Did a ton of travelling in 2018 and now it’s time to hunker down and focus on writing Our Lady of Blades (the new swashbuckling book in the world of the Greatcoats) and Crownbreaker (the final book in the Spellslinger series.) Vancouver is remarkably warm this season, with temperatures often hitting 10 degrees Celcius (or…
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…
Back at home base for the summer months until my next European book tour in September. Usually Vancouver is remarkably lovely in June, but this time around it’s been a bit rainy. Some interesting facts about Vancouver: Vancouver is the third largest film production centre in North America after Los Angeles and New York. Okay,…
A lovely cycling trip to Vietnam, marred only slightly by having gotten every kind of illness imaginable – almost none of them due to the lovely country, however.
A visit with my publishers, a terrific play in the West End, and of course, a stop by the British Museum.
We spent Christmas this year cycling around the Atlas Mountains in beautiful Morocco. One of the highlights was actually spending time on a camel. I tried to give mine a royal name but he told me to bugger off.