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National Tell the Truth Day!

To celebrate, please join me today on Twitter between 12-1 (PST) and 3-4 (EST). I will be dispensing iffy advice* of all sorts. Use the hashtag #AskJuby. *Advice not guaranteed to be good. Or to make sense.

Starred Review in Shelf Awareness

Thank you to Shelf Awareness for the starred review of The Truth Commission! The fifth star! “Juby beautifully frames the questions at the heart of adolescence. When do you want to know the truth and when is it too much? How much do you present to the world and how much do you keep for […]

Tour Details!

As you know, I’m a lucky enough duck that I’m going on a cross country tour with Susin Nielsen, author of several superb novels, including the upcoming We Are All Made of Molecules. This new one has Susin’s trademark humour and poignancy and will surely become another book adored by readers. If you’d like to […]

This Creative Life

Well, I’m peeling myself off the ceiling. Thank you to Alexis Keinlen for alerting me to the general excellence of Sara Zarr’s podcast and giving me the mind-crumbling, heart bursting news that Gayle Forman said some incredibly kind things about the Truth Commission during her episode. The episode in general is a must-listen for any […]

More stops on the blog tour.

Thanks to Tayce of The Night Owl Post on Blog Lovin’ for the thoughtful review. Lynne on Words of Mystery for her review. I particularly liked hearing from a writer who is also involved in writing a web comic. I appreciated the excellent questions from The Reader Bee and the review. And here’s a Q&A […]

More stops on the blog tour!

I was particularly taken with the first lines of the review on on Realradreads: “The Truth Commission has my heart. I am forever loyal to the book and the author and Green Pastures Academy; as soon as I turned the first page I knew that it was going to stay on my shelf forever.” Thank […]

Blog Tour!

I’m on a blog tour for The Truth Commission. Thanks to all the bloggers who are taking part! Today I did a guest blog on the ever-so-cool The Mary Sue. I wrote about the genesis of Normandy Pale and my longstanding difficulties with the truth. I’ll be putting up links to all the blog stops […]

New Website, New Book, Three Tons of Gratitude

Welcome to the world, new website. And welcome to the world, The Truth Commission! I hope everyone enjoys both. True confession time. A few years ago I thought I might be done with writing. I just felt like it wasn’t happening. Like I wasn’t happening. And I definitely didn’t think I’d write any more YA […]

Pub day and perhaps the best review I’ve ever received

It’s 12:34 a.m. and so officially the publication day for The Truth Commission. And as luck would have it, I went on Twitter and found a review that made me tear up. Thank you, Leila Roy and Kirkus for posting this on The Truth Commission‘s birthday. I must quote the second to last paragraph in […]

Thank you to Canlit for Little Canadians

and Helen Kubiw for the lovely review of The Truth Commission! I can’t decide what line I love the most but I’m honoured by all of them. And now I’m off to the VIU launch of The Truth Commission. Then I’ll be attending the launch for the 2015 Portal Magazine by VIU’s creative writing and […]