Sylvia McNicoll's Blog, page 7
February 26, 2016
Judging a book by its cover when there is none
This is what a collector’s box of cereal looks like. The picture doesn’t do it justice, there is spot varnish on the Superman logo and texture on the blue of the uniform. I confess I was seduced into buying, … Continue reading →
February 9, 2016
The Dreaded Author Photo and Bio
A writer needs to get out into the world in order to be able to write. It’s a conundrum. Not only do you need something to write about but you need money to live on and just as for rock … Continue reading →
December 28, 2015
Epic Effort of the Year
My writing friends know I’m working on a fictional story about a Slam Poetry team, the climax of which could be a transgendered youth performing a love poem to the unsuspecting main character, Liam, aka Shakespeare. For some of the … Continue reading →
November 15, 2015
Packaging Your Imagination
Ten things I learned at Packaging Your Imagination. Okay maybe I didn’t learn these ten new things, maybe these were things I knew deep down inside and just had confirmed. After some twenty years of attending these day long seminars … Continue reading →
Judging the Braille Writing Contest
The CNIB helped me with the research for A Different Kind of Beauty. While my Bringing Up Beauty series was immensely successful both in Canada and in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Germany–immensely successful did not translate into wealth. More like … Continue reading →
October 1, 2015
A toast to Eli Torensen and Anne Ramberg!
On September 30, 2015, I raise my glass to a publishing team I’ve never personally met, Eli Toresen and Anne Ramberg! On this day, after some thirty-two years of producing wonderful reads for girls in many countries, they retire. To … Continue reading →
September 15, 2015
For Paul Kropp–The Last Project
Paul Kropp and I go way back to 1988 when I took his writing course at Sheridan College and through it wrote my first novel Blueberries and Whipped Cream, quickly followed by Jump Start for Paul’s famed Series … Continue reading →
August 9, 2015
HiphopHighTea Hamilton Youth Poets
The point is not the crustless sandwiches or the scones or homemade shortbread, chocolate chip cookies and cupcakes The point is not the creme brulée tea, or the Copa Cabana green tea or any of the other varieties. … Continue reading →
June 23, 2015
Our future–teen writing class
This is a photo of my students (12-17) at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre on the last night of our Creative Writing Lab. It’s always been a dream of mine to host a teen writing club and somehow through a … Continue reading →
June 11, 2015
The Importance of Randomness–Your Public Library
Recently in writing an article on what libraries can do for writers, I encountered an attitude that’s increasingly popular in the service, entertainment and information industries and that is “we want to give the client what they ask for.” So … Continue reading →
