This is the short story my 10-year-old daughter Alice (that’s her in the picture–she’s the one on the right) entered in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Book Week 2012 Writing Contest for Kids & Teens. She didn’t win or get an honorable mention, …
Chapter One of a YA novel I hope to finish someday…The City Must Die (that’;s an entirely fictitious cover).
Why is it unfinished? Well, because I sold Masks instead, I guess. But reading this over again for the first time in months, I …
I’ve posted the openings to my Enslow biographies of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix–guess it’s time to give Johnny Cash his due.
I enjoyed writing about Johnny Cash because a) he was a really interesting guy and b) I grew up listening to …
I’m conducting a workshop this afternoon on writing science fiction and fantasy, in my role as writer-in-residence (for just one more month!) at the Regina Public Library.
Now, it’s easy to just talk for an hour and a half about writing, but I want people to actually do some writing: and to that end, I’m going …
As a writer, freedom of speech is near and dear to my heart. It’s one of the basic principles of the democratic form of government. And yet it seems to be constantly under attack, for one simple reason: it’s easy to say you believe in …
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