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  • A Room in the Forest Summer Readings

    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…

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  • Judging a book cover

    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…

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  • I love reader reviews

    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…

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  • To all those who have been lost

    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…

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  • Encounters with books

    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…

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  • The Postwoman brings twice

    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…

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