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September 28, 2015
Major Writerly Milestone Ahead!
I am on my way to Toronto today to attend the Lane Anderson Award dinner. Fuzzy Forensics is one of three books on the shortlist in the Young Reader Category, and the winner will be announced tonight! It’s my first […]
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September 24, 2015
Shockingly Delicious Allergen-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
No, really. Shockingly good. Which was a surprise, considering that literally the only ingredients I did NOT substitute were the salt and baking soda. Try them. You’ll never believe they’re allergen-free. Ingredients 1 1/3 cups Spectrum 100% palm oil shortening […]
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September 21, 2015
Someone Send Me a Pallas’ Cat, Please!
Somehow I convinced myself I could write three manuscripts while simultaneously ramping up for a new semester at SMU. I am really not the smartest sometimes… The blog may suffer a bit of neglect while I dig myself out of […]
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September 19, 2015
Sweet Dreams Are Probably Not Made of This
Tech Support: How’d you sleep? Me: Not good. Dreamed that I was horribly late for work because a breaker flipped and it was pitch black and no one would go re-flip it. Tech Support: Huh. Me: Plus I couldn’t have […]
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September 14, 2015
Unmuzzle Canada: Let Scientists Speak
I don’t talk much about politics on the internet, because it often results in a non-stop ticket to Crazytown. But Canada is having a federal election this fall, and we need to talk about the politics of science. There are […]
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September 12, 2015
I Feel This is a Bad Sign
So you know how I’m binge-reading The Wheel of Time series now that all the books are finally out? I’m on book six of 14 (technically 7 of 15, since I started with the prequel) and I have noticed some things. […]
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September 10, 2015
Sometimes the Data Mining Scares Me…
…because Google’s ad department knows that I was looking up my own books on B&N, which is more than I really want the faceless internet to know about me. I’m a writer, after all. Some of the things I google could […]
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September 7, 2015
Brier Island Humpback Whales
Brier Island is one of the best places in Canada for whale watching, and after four years in Nova Scotia, Tech Support and I finally made it up there. A number of species of whales and dolphins summer off Nova […]
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September 5, 2015
Disney’s Cinderella – Live Action, Still Boring
Maleficent was awesome. It was a creative and compelling reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, with humour and conflict and deep characterizations, and it was just plain beautiful to watch. I’d always loved the animated Sleeping Beauty, but hated the animated Cinderella, […]
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September 3, 2015
Everything is Better With Bacon
If you’ve been following for a while, you’ll know that I’ve given up sugar for health reasons.∗ Finding sugar in table salt was the biggest shock, but easy to work around. Then I found out that there’s sugar in bacon. *sound of […]
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