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October 4, 2017
Novels can cure what ails you
Can a novel cure what ails you? Absolutely: It’s called bibliotherapy, which means reading as a type of therapy. I was sitting in the library one day, having a small bout of writer’s block while trying to start a new novel, when I looked up and saw a book titled The Novel Cure by Ella […]
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September 27, 2017
Bear-ly started my new novel
I’ve barely started writing my new novel, but it’s all outlined and going smoothly. There will be bears in it :), and since I recently returned from the Great Bear Rainforest where I was researching it, I thought I’d add a few more photos to my earlier posts on the region: Back from Bella Coola […]
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September 19, 2017
Back from Bella Coola (novel research in the Great Bear Rainforest)
The joy of being an author is the research for my young-adult adventure novels that sometimes involves fun trips. I just returned from several days in Bella Coola, British Columbia, 267 miles (429 kilometers) northwest of Vancouver in the Great Bear Rainforest. With my traveling companion Deb, I hiked waterfall trails and saw grizzly bears, […]
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September 13, 2017
YA adventure Tracker’s Canyon: another 5-star review
From Netgalley and educator Martha Lawton comes yet another five-star review of my young-adult adventure novel Tracker’s Canyon (Dundurn Press): Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Tracker’s Canyon was a great adventure story for many students. The book is well written and keeps the reader’s attention as the stakes become higher for Tristan. The book […]
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September 6, 2017
A visit to the Great Bear Rainforest
My back-to-school adventure this fall is in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada: population 2,000 and 450km/270 miles northwest of Vancouver. It’s in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, the setting of my next novel, and I’m speaking at the high school there while conducting research for my book. I’m excited, because I’ve never been […]
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August 30, 2017
Boys & reading: What do boys want from teachers, anyway?
Parents can suggest the following to their son’s teacher, or encourage their son to do so: 1) Read aloud to the class more; assign less silent reading. 2) Let boys dramatize their reading and writing more. 3) Give them more breaks to physically move around. 4) Do less nagging about squirming and talking. 5) Set […]
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August 23, 2017
“Recommended for adventure-loving kids!”
To all adventure lovers: Here’s the latest review for my new young-adult novel Tracker’s Canyon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars by educator Martha Lawton for NetGalley “Tracker’s Canyon was a great adventure story for many students. The book is well written and keeps the reader’s attention as the stakes become higher for Tristan. The […]
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August 16, 2017
The Homeschooling Option
by Cynthia Gill (Pam’s older sister and co-author with her of Jump-Starting Boys*) I always said that I’d rather home-school my boys because I thought the school system discriminated against young boys. This was long before I learned anything about brain development. It was sheer observation: The teachers in lower elementary school demand that boys […]
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August 9, 2017
Read like Teddy
He rose early, cared little about his clothes, his customary ensemble a rumpled three-piece civilian suit, stiff detachable collar, black tie with stickpin. His main pleasures were food – virtually anything set before him – horseback riding, a glass of beer, conversation, and books, his reading being done according to a lifetime routine. He always […]
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August 1, 2017
The Upside of Extreme Sports
Reprinted from my guest blog on the Dundurn Press blog: Canyoneering involves roped-up, wetsuited adventurers descending waterfalls and sculpted canyons. It’s a sport so heart-stopping and photogenic that when I saw a spread of it in a magazine, I declared, “This is the topic of my next adventure novel!” Tracker’s Canyon is my seventeenth young-adult […]
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