Putting Pen to Paper

I’m well into the holiday season, having eaten many Christmas lunches, enjoyed many decorative light displays and procrastinated on buying many gifts. Working on the last one!

I especially need to enjoy all the revelry, as I will be setting some new habits in January. I’ve been writing in fits and spurts lately, mostly writing picture books… obviously less time involved than for a novel. But there’s a sequel in me to the novel I sold this fall, so I need to seriously close the door on other pursuits some days, and put that pen to paper. Or fingers to keyboard. It will be interesting to see how that feels, having more solitary time to write. I’m thinking that after a week or two, my writing space will take on the look of this room. Hopefully my mind will stay a little cleaner and clearer than that.

In the meantime, I wish everyone a peaceful and relaxing holiday, however that looks for you!

’Tis the Season!

My new picture book about Christmas is out, so it kind of has to be the season, for me. It’s called The Best Christmas Ever, and will also be...

Two new books this fall… an embarrassment of riches!

Stazy, the new kid. Faye, Hali and Rena, longtime friends. They are grade seven students whose obvious similarity is Skills Class, where wonderful Mr. Locke helps them keep up with their class work.

But there’s a secret that ties the three longtime friends together, and when Stazy stumbles on it, she adds her own secret into the mix. These girls are supernaturals and no Skills Class can help them navigate life as a witch, a fairy, a mermaid and an angel. For that, they need each other.

Spring’s Gifts

Spring so far has been lots of rain, some time in the desert, some writing, and now… a new baby in the family!

The rain, we all know about.

The desert was an amazing time spent checking out the gorgeous canyons of Utah and Arizona. Here’s a photo in Antelope Canyon, where a Navajo tour guide took us deep into the canyon to admire the sandstone and tell us his people’s history there. (The desert was also a very nice break from the… you guessed it… rain!)

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