UTM’s The Medium and the English & Drama Society have put together a great panel of emerging and established writers for this evening, and I’m really pleased to say I’ll be contributing as a panelist!

The panel kicks off at 5:00 pm in room IB150, and co-panelists will include Sara Peters, Simone Da Costa, Morgan Rhodes, Menna Elnaka, and Leah ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, I did a great, thoughtful interview with Kris Abel of What She Said Radio about An Inheritance of Ashes, the Aurora Awards, favourite books, women in writing, and building fantasy worlds - and that’s going to be airing tonight!

In the Toronto area, the show’s on 88.5 The Jewel at 6:00 pm, with the segment coming on close to ( Read more... )

The Canadian version’s been out for a little over two weeks, but today it’s Book Birthday for the American edition of the An Inheritance of Ashes paperback!


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It’s a serious pleasure to let you know that An Inheritance of Ashes, a book with apparently more energy than me, has won the 2016 Copper Cylinder Award in the YA category.

The adult category winner is Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Signal To Noise, which is a neat, unique first novel, and the company just makes this that much better.

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Leaves are turning, temperature’s dropping, apple cider’s out-and it’s Scavenger Hunt!


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The Fall YA Scavenger Hunt is coming, and fast.


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Since it’s rapidly rushing up on me (aaaa):

I’ll be at this year’s Word on the Street Festival on Sunday, September 26, but in a different capacity than usual: I’m turning my hand to hosting the brand-new Genre Zone stage for the afternoon!

So while I’ll be there and around the stage for most of the day, it’ll be to showcase and interview authors ( Read more... )

Now that it’s official:

I am thrilled to let you know that An Inheritance of Ashes is the winner of the 2016 Sunburst Award in the Young Adult Novel category.

It’s recognized along with Gemma Files’s incredible Experimental Film in the adult category, and Catherine MacLeod’s “Hide and Seek” in the short fiction category.

Given the amazing works on ( Read more... )

Now that we’re past Labour Day (and what turned into an eight-hour jam-making marathon over here; I have so much jam, guys) it’s going to be a full September for events: I’m going to be hosting a stage at Word on the Street, running a launch-day Facebook event takeover, and panelling this weekend at Ottawa’s 2016 CanCon, which is right downtown ( Read more... )

It is an intense and surprising pleasure to let you know that An Inheritance of Ashes won the 2016 Aurora Award for Best English Young Adult Novel this Saturday evening.

This is pretty cool, as you might imagine.
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