by Pam | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog, book review
A Goodreads review of The Parkour Club by Mariam Mohsen, a 16-year-old reader in Egypt “a story for the whole world to read and learn from” “Islam is a really sensitive subject and it needs so much research — which both the authors have done...
by Pam | Sep 12, 2018 | Blog, Book News
Come help me launch my 18th young-adult novel Stowaway (Dundurn Press) on Sunday, October 14 from 3-4:30 pm in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Christianne’s Lyceum, 3696 W 8th Ave.). I’ll be doing readings, revealing how the ideas came to me, and sharing humorous...
by Pam | Jun 20, 2018 | Blog
My annual sojourn into the boonies begins. Well, not really the boonies, just our cabin in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. But spending the next two months there, finishing my in-progress young adult novel (!), means I’ll be without internet (except for...
by Pam | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog
The following review of my forthcoming young-adult adventure novel Stowaway is from the June 2018 issue of Resource Links (“connecting classrooms, libraries and Canadian learning resources”), page 21. Release date August 2018 but available by pre-order...
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...