Category Archives: Events

August 2013 Events

August 2, 2013, Events

On August 13, Doubleday Canada will publish my second novel, Muse, as a trade paperback, with French flaps and rough edges. You can pre-order copies for $17 at Indigo online and Amazon.ca If you buy one for a friend at the same time, the shipping is free. During the week of August 26, I will be doing a blog book tour for Muse. Every day, I will be guest-blogging at a different blogger’s website, writing about the backstory and inspiration for my novel. This is my first blog tour and I think it will be great fun. I’ll post the links to the bloggers’ sites as soon as I have the dates and details.
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November 3rd, 4th, 8th & 10th, 2012 – writer-in-residence at the West Vancouver Memorial Library

November 1, 2012, Events

During NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November, I will be the writer-in-residence at the West Vancouver Memorial Library, from 10 am to 1 pm, for these four days.

The Vancouver International Writers Festival

October 1, 2012, Events

The Vancouver International Writers Festival kicks off with its Literati gala at the Fairmont Waterfront. I’ll be there and I hope some of you will be as well to support literacy in Vancouver

A Tour of the Maritimes, 2009

August 15, 2012, Blogs, Events

In January 2009, I hopped an Airbus in Vancouver wearing new snow boots and carrying a down coat with a hood. I was heading to Saint John to read from my novel Conceit (Doubleday 2007) in the hugely successful Lorenzo Series, organized by poet-in-residence Anne Compton, the tastemaker of the Maritimes. Anne had arranged to bring me in a day early, in… Read More