The Parkour Club wins international award

The Parkour Club wins international award

Blown away to hear The Parkour Club has just won an int’l Nautilus Book Awards silver for young adult fiction! Available on Amazon. Promotes cross-cultural understanding through an adventure story/thriller.  book trailer
Review: The Parkour Club

Review: The Parkour Club

BOOK REVIEW of THE PARKOUR CLUB Kirkus Reviews March 2021 Two teens fall for one another amid an extreme sport and an extremist plot in Withers and Hayat’s YA novel. Sixteen-year-old Bronte Miller has returned to her hometown of Richland, Washington, after a year in...
Four sleeps till major book awards ceremony!

Four sleeps till major book awards ceremony!

It’s a mere four-day countdown to Canada’s largest kids’ book awards (I’m one of 10 authors nominated for the Red Maple Award), and this year anyone can watch the Forest of Reading Festival awards online on Tuesday, June 16: curio.ca/forestoforeading  Big kudos to the...
Forest of Reading program soldiers on!

Forest of Reading program soldiers on!

Greetings to all the students and educators involved with the Forest of Reading awards! I know you’re busy reading books nominated for various awards (including my young-adult novel Stowaway, part of the Red Maple nominees for 2020) despite your physical...
New forthcoming novel: Drone Chase

New forthcoming novel: Drone Chase

Teens with drones catch bear-poaching gang in the woods of northern British Columbia, Canada! That’s the topic of my forthcoming young-adult novel, Drone Chase. Scheduled for publication spring 2021, it is available now for pre-order at Amazon, Indigo, and other...