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October 26, 2009
October 24, 2009
B.O.O.K.E.D Brampton and the amazing day!
I had an absolutely wonderful time on Tuesday, October 20th. Caught a 6am flight from Saskatoon to Toronto (okay, the early flight was not so great), checked in to my fancy hotel, was picked up by the Harpercollins "posse" and taken to Cheyne School in Brampton for a surprise visit with BOOKED (B.O.O.K.E.D is a group of students who received advance reader's copies of The Hunchback Assignments and are the focus of a documentary that HarperCollins is producing). It was a surprise visit, so the...
October 20, 2009
October 19, 2009
Odd Victorian Factoid#28: Don't Get Fanny Mad
Odd Victorian Factoid #28
Don't get Fanny mad! The Great Train Robbery of 1855 was a dashing, amazing criminal event. Robbers somehow stole many gold bars, bullion, American Eagle coins and more bullion leaving behind the same weight in lead shot on the train (the safes were weighed at every station). They would have lived like kings, too, and never been caught, except one of them cheated a woman named Fanny, who knew they had done something against the law to do with the South-eastern...
October 16, 2009
Calgary Wordfest
Just back home after having an excellent time at the Calgary Wordfest. My first event was Wordfeast, which is a fund raiser. Yes, people actually pay money to sit with writers. I put on quite a show gobbling all my food down like a madman and talking with dessert in my mouth. They got their money's worth! The next morning I shared the stage with Don Calame, a master of humour! Or maybe a Ninja of humour.
The audience was loud, proud and...err on the smallish size. Only because it had snowed h...
The audience was loud, proud and...err on the smallish size. Only because it had snowed h...
October 9, 2009
You Could Have A Character in The Hunchback Assignments
Hang onto your top hats! HarperCollins Canada has set up a new character contest. Yes, you could have a character that you've dreamed up in your amazingly brilliant head appear in one of the books from The Hunchback Assignments series! Besides the world wide fame that will give you, you'll also win a free signed book. Signed by the author himself (or Wayne Gretzky, but only if he accidentally signs it). This is your assignment. Go to the Hunchback website and click on the button that takes yo...
October 4, 2009
Indigo Saskatoon Signing
Whew! Did a Hunchback Assignments signing at the local Indigo Books here today. Was pleased to see signage announcing the signing! 
Hey, wait a second! Diane Gabaldon has a bigger sign than me (I think it's large enough to officially be called a banner)? 
Is there some sort of pecking order in the writing universe that I didn't get a memo about? Next people will be telling me that Stephen King has a bigger house.
Ah, but here I am inside Indigo cuddling my books.
Signed lots of them. Sold so...
Hey, wait a second! Diane Gabaldon has a bigger sign than me (I think it's large enough to officially be called a banner)? Is there some sort of pecking order in the writing universe that I didn't get a memo about? Next people will be telling me that Stephen King has a bigger house.Ah, but here I am inside Indigo cuddling my books.
Signed lots of them. Sold so...
September 30, 2009
Editing a series using audiobook
I'm thoroughly enjoying the audiobook of The Hunchback Assignments (downloaded it off iTunes! Geek heaven). Jayne Entwistle does a lovely job of narrating the story. But as I listen again to the novel, I'm also madly at work on the second book in the series, The Dark Deeps. I am finding that the audio book is reminding me of little quirks I'd forgotten about my characters and is helping me to recapture the "style" I used in the first book. I never really dreamed that an audiobook would be a...
September 24, 2009
Launch Addendum
Forgot to mention that 15 minutes before showtime I realized I'd left my reader's copy of my book at home. It has all my edits and notes! Ooops. Quick trip there and back, nearly had an accident, but made it.
Oooh and also had a twitter book birthday party on Tuesday! Which was sooo much virtual fun. Join here to find out about book releases and bookbday parties...
Web: http://twitterbookparties.com
Twitter: twitter.com/bookbday
Oooh and also had a twitter book birthday party on Tuesday! Which was sooo much virtual fun. Join here to find out about book releases and bookbday parties...
Web: http://twitterbookparties.com
Twitter: twitter.com/bookbday
