Jump-Starting Boys: List of Media Attention!

Jump-Starting Boys: List of Media Attention!

Wow, what response my co-author (and older sister) Cynthia Gill (see photos of us, young and old; me on the left in the top photo, me on the right in the bottom photo) and I are getting from our just-off-the-press book for parents and educators: Jump-Starting Boys....
A Spoonful of Fun

A Spoonful of Fun

Why am I Mary Poppins in this photo?! As a long-time member of Children’s Writers and Illustrators of British Columbia, Canada (www.cwill.bc), I was happy to celebrate the organization’s 20-year anniversary two nights ago by attending a big party. The...
Festival of Trees book awards

Festival of Trees book awards

Two weeks in Ontario! Has it really been more than a week since I arrived back from a whirlwind author’s tour in which I spoke at schools in London, Whitby and Ottawa? Great schools, libraries and students! Wonderful staff! And such great questions from the...

Teen blog about First Descent

Hey, Jack Z.: Thanks for blogging about First Descent on the following site, where teens blog about teen books. Have a great day! 🙂 http://blogs.ellingtonschools.org/larkin/

Book Trailer!

Book trailers are all the rage these days, but not all of us have the technological or artistic talent to create one, and some of us have never gotten around to hiring someone else to do it.  So imagine my surprise and delight when I learned that a group of Grade...