Journal
Browse here for posts related to all aspects of my writing life including
events, news, travel, research, mythology, and musings.
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...
In Celebration of Trees
Source: Home This is one of the best blogs I've seen. Nick Rowan (he even has a tree name) is the Treeographer. He's also a traveller, woodworker, and a wonderful writer. The Treeographer is my attempt to bring my enthusiasm for trees to others – not by evoking guilt...
Wilderness Dweller
This woman, Chris Czajkowski, is one of my heroes. For thirty years, she's lived off the grid alone in the wilderness with dogs for company, built her own cabins, and written her books. I thought of Chris tonight as I was reading Farley Mowatt's classic, Lost in the...
