by Pam | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Book News
Does that ever feel good, especially for a novel that took a year to write, and threw me for a loop several times! (If I were a quitter, I’d have quit on it. But I’m not.) It’s titled In Hiding and is a wilderness-survival young-adult tale....
by Pam | Oct 15, 2019 | Blog, Books
I’m humbled and honored, and doing a little happy-dance! 😊 It’s official as of today that my young-adult novel Stowaway is one of ten in Canada nominated for a Red Maple 2020 fiction award. I’m also tickled that this is my third nomination (for...
by Pam | Sep 29, 2019 | Blog, Writing Tips
I’m often asked my favorite books on writing craft (fiction), so I’m going to list them here. They’ve been of great help to me, and I urge writers of any level to embrace them. There are a whole lot of bad books on writing craft out there, so enjoy...
by Pam | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog
This past weekend I was honored to host the fifth annual CWILL-BC writers’ retreat on Mayne Island, British Columbia — for members of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators of B.C. Instructor Ellen Schwartz was highly popular and did a wonderful...
by Pam | Jun 6, 2019 | Blog, book review
by Pam Withers Individuals can’t do much about so-called global warming. Experts have to fix it, right? Or industries, or government, or whomever. I mean, sure, we can change our incandescent light bulbs to energy-efficient ones, but seriously, how effective is that...
