Category: Blog
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Change is coming
I’m not sure where home is anymore, as Tom Johnson has been my home for almost half of my life. Read more
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Reader Reviews Appreciated
It feels so good to get feedback from friends and (especially!) strangers. If you have thoughts about A Room in the Forest and are able to post a review on Goodreads, or even on your FB page I would really appreciate the support! Read more
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Book Club Questions
More and more friends/readers are getting their book clubs to read A Room in the Forest. I am open to attending meetings when possible so just connect with me! Read more
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Outtakes
I told audiences how long the original submitted manuscript had been before getting to what was finally published. One version was at least 118,000 words. The manuscript that went to press was around 80,000. People were very interested to know more about some of the 40,000 words that I cut out. Read more
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A Room in the Forest Summer Readings
Thank you so much to everyone who as come to my readings in Vancouver, Haida Gwaii and Chilliwack! I’ll be doing a few more over the summer and I’m happy to consider other locations still. I know there were a few requests earlier and I’ve tried to organize readings in places like Comox Valley and Read more
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Judging a book cover
Lucky for me, Caitlin Press was open to my input on the cover of A Room in the Forest. I knew I wanted to feature an artist from Haida Gwaii, but who? I had so many in mind when I started looking. Artists like Judy Hilgemann, Vernal Bogran Swift, Bonita Saunders, Debra Gardiner, Betsy Cardell, Read more
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I love reader reviews
Thank you to all who read my book. After so many hours, months, years moving all those words around on pages, its amazing to have other people interacting with the final result. A few cherished readers reviewed the book before publication and their thoughts have been included on the back of the book. But here Read more
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To all those who have been lost
To all those who have been lost and then found the islands of the people. That’s the dedication I chose for my debut novel, A Room in the Forest. It’s about a young woman who is lost. Not in the sense of someone losing their way home. Lily has no idea which way she wants Read more
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Encounters with books
Book lovers like to share, but as a suspicious GenXer, I’ve never been too into BookTok hype or even Goodreads! I’ll tell my friends what I’m reading, but the marketing demographers can figure me out some other way. Ha ha. As if, right? But I was excited to be asked to write a list of Read more
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The Postwoman brings twice
Two boxes of my books arrived yesterday and want to give a shout out to our local postwoman. I’d just read on the neighbourhood Facebook group that people weren’t getting packages to their door these days. Instead they were getting those notices that say you have to wait until 1pm the NEXT day to pick Read more