My novel is finally completed, and is being edited. The Pandemic has slowed down my progress in submitting to a publisher, but patience is something we all need to practice at this time. I manage to keep busy, sometimes too busy, and the time flies by swiftly. I finally returned to a painting of an…
Category: WRITINGS
Busy Times
FIRESTORM, my fourth Young Adult novel, is completed, edited twice by myself and now in the hands of a close friend. I have started a new painting, an old abandoned homestead, and will call it NO TRESPASSING. I often find it difficult to work on as my writing activities take most of my time. I…
FIRESTORM
My book is finally finished, and I have edited it twice, and now a friend of mine is editing it. I think I am going to try to find a Canadian publisher first, and then I’ll submit to other countries, perhaps the US and the UK. I am not sure how much publishing is being…
FIRESTORM – written during a Pandemic
My novel FIRESTORM is coming together nicely, my seven characters have grown, and face daily obstacles. I have come to know them well: 1. Carlie, my protagonist who has buried her feelings deep inside, not willing to come to terms with the loss of her parents and her dog Poppy. She has taken on the…
Pandemic
Times are changing but are they for the better? Self-Isolation, Quarantine, Social-Distancing, Stay Home–words we have never used before but now have deep meaning. A Pandemic is serious, and we MUST listen to the scientists, health-care workers, doctors, politicians, those who are working on the front lines. Does it sound as if we are at…
FIRESTORM, Changes are coming…
There’s a definite change in the weather, the snow is falling off the roof in huge piles, shaking the house and adding to the mounds of snow still covering our yard. The warmer weather means less visitors at the feeders, this is the time the birds start making their nests, and I noticed a nuthatch…
CHILD OF THE ANCIENTS
I’m so excited because my book CHILD OF THE ANCIENTS (Category 12, Young Adult and Middle Grade) was just nominated for the 2020 Readers Choice Awards contest by TCK Publishing! Please vote for it at https://www.tckpublishing.com/2020-readers-choice-voting-p…/ Thanks everyone.
Firestorm continues
I am progressing nicely with my latest novel. Not being a topic I am familiar with, I am doing a lot of research, which works out fine, as it is something I love doing. My characters’ abilities are developing, making them stronger and perhaps able to face what is yet to come I am attaching…
FIRESTORM latest novel a WIP
I am working on my fourth Young Adult novel, FIRESTORM. The year is 2034, and Vancouver has been devastated by a huge earthquake and tsunami. Global warming is escalating, wildfires are rampant on the West Coast. The majority of people who survived have either moved north or into the Interior, looking for better lives. Those who…
THE TROUBLE WITH MANDY
The Trouble with Mandy is an uplifting story of a young girl searching for her identity and learning to cope with changes happening in her life. The diversion of nurturing an injured eaglet is stimulating but does little to alleviate thirteen year old Mandy Johnson’s anxieties and she continuously feels frustrated and unhappy. Through it…