by Pam | Dec 14, 2018 | Blog, Books
Because my young-adult adventure novel Tracker’s Canyon has been nominated for the prestigious Red Maple Award (Ontario Library Association, Forest of Reading) , it means I will be doing author presentations on tour May 7, 2019 onward in Toronto and beyond....
by Pam | May 16, 2018 | Blog
Need a teachers resource guide for Canadian fiction? Reach for the 49th shelf of your nearest bookshelf. By that I mean there’s an exciting new source for teachers resource guides, including for my latest young-adult adventure novel, Tracker’s Canyon, and...
by Pam | Sep 6, 2017 | Blog
My back-to-school adventure this fall is in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada: population 2,000 and 450km/270 miles northwest of Vancouver. It’s in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, the setting of my next novel, and I’m speaking at the high school there...
by Pam | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog
What do I do when I finish a novel (as I just have)? 1. Clean my office. 2. Do all the chores that have piled up as I wrote my last few chapters (during that last dash to the finish line, I am aware of very little else around me!). 3. Conduct a final polishing of my...
by Pam | Mar 22, 2017 | Blog
I used to have a roommate who was a “colorist”; as a young artist intern, she colored-in the black and white artwork of a senior artist. Recently, it occurred to me that Stage II of writing a novel is kind of like that, at least for me. When I finish a...
