I’ve lived in Ottawa since 1995. The writing community here has helped me immensely as an artist — from the open mic nights at the Tree Reading Series where I first read my fiction in front of people, to the writers’ critique […]
I’m very pleased to say that The Embroidered Book won the Aurora Award for Best Novel this weekend. Luckily, I had made some speech notes and put on a fancy dress just in case! What a lovely honour even to be nominated […]
I’ve been thinking lately about conceptualizing a book as a machine, partly because I was pondering the choice of that word in the message on Woody Guthrie’s guitar, and partly because “machine” is a broad category which is useful for considering the […]
My latest novel, The Valkryie, is out in the world! It’s available in ebook and audiobook everywhere — and let me just say something about the audiobook, because I’m listening to it now, and oh my goodness, when I got to Chapter […]
Every year, Locus magazine asks for input from reviewers, columnists and others and compiles a recommended reading list. I’m pleased to say that The Embroidered Book is on the list in the best fantasy novel category. And what a list in general! […]
My favourite sentence in the Wolf Hall trilogy is this: Even in the republic of virtue, you need a man who will shovel up the shit, and somewhere it is written that his name is Cromwell. I sat and stared at the […]
Just a quick post to say that to my great joy, The Embroidered Book is on the Canadian Fiction list again this week as reported by the Toronto Star: This makes three weeks on the Canadian Fiction list (Canadian Fiction is also […]