Journal
Browse here for posts related to all aspects of my writing life including
events, news, travel, research, mythology, and musings.
November Update
I have not been posting this month. That's because my mind is crammed with other things. Like writing--which is what we authors live for. When the characters are talking, the settings appearing, and the words flowing, we are in love. And that euphoria fuels us. If we...
JK Rowling's Harry Potter series is the literary phenomenon of our times. via Broomsticks and Dragon Bones – Philip Carr-Gomm
The Face of a Scottish “Witch”
via Face Of 18th-Century Witchcraft-Accused Scottish Woman Reconstructed
The SiWC Hangover
I'm just back from the Surrey International Writers Conference, known by attendees as SiWC: the best writing conference in the world! And so it is. Still reeling with the hangover, I feel energized...so electrified with new ideas, I don't know where to start. Those of...
Searching for Estrada
It is a glorious fall day--Canadian Thanksgiving--so I wore my new hikers up to Buntzen Lake to test them out on the trails and search for Estrada. (I love these Keens!) When you take a three-month hiatus in the middle of writing a book you can't always pick up where...
EU Airline Claims
If you've been reading my blog this summer, you know that I travelled in Ireland and the return trip to Canada was a nightmare. I wrote about the experience in this post: http://bluehavenpress.com/2017/08/06/dear-air-transat-we-are-over I didn't leave it there. There...
