by Pam | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog
Update: As one of the honored authors to be part of the 2018 TD Book Week tour next month, I will soon be speaking at ten schools and libraries over a five-day period in Ontario. (Better yet, I wind up on Mother’s Day weekend in Toronto, where my son will just...
by Pam | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog
The reason a Canadian named Carol Finlay started up book clubs in prisons was not just to give prisoners a welcome distraction and goal (to read the books), but to broaden and stimulate their minds through discussion about the book, and see if it could also expand...
by Pam | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog
The bad news is that 27% of Americans (probably Canadians too) did not read a book last year, according to Pew Research. Not even one book! The good news is that teens are more likely than adults to read for pleasure. (On the other hand, they read for pleasure less...
by Pam | Mar 21, 2018 | Blog, Book News
Stowaway won’t be out till August, but you can already pre-order it on Amazon or Chapters, or at any bookstore. And today I’m offering a peek view of (drum roll….) my next young-adult adventure novel! SUMMARY: People-smuggling is a very current topic...
by Pam | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog
There’s a new 20-questions interview template going around, and it goes deeper than most shallow media questionnaires. Created by French novelist Marcel Proust, it has been adopted by all kinds of media outlets to interview all kinds of politicians, celebs and...
