Yesterday I got to take part in the Festival of Trees for the first time, thanks to The Way We Fall‘s White Pine nomination. Such a fun day! First, all the nominated authors got on stage with two student volunteers … Continue reading
I’ve been doing quite a few school visits in the last couple months, and one question that almost always comes up is, What advice would you give to an aspiring writer? And I’ve realized I have a lot of opinions … Continue reading
Many of you, I hope, are familiar with L.K. Madigan’s work: her debut novel, Flash Burnout, won the William C. Morris Award. Sadly Lisa was only able to share one more book with us, The Mermaid’s Mirror, before cancer took … Continue reading
I’ve been getting asked more and more in the last few months, “What’s next after the Fallen World trilogy?” And I’ve had to keep saying, “I hope I can share some news soon!” Well, soon is now here! I am … Continue reading
Can’t make it to London or Oshawa? Good news! The YA apocalypse tour will also be coming to the Barrie area. Leah Bobet, Maureen McGowan, Cheryl Rainfield, and I will be at the Essa Public Library in Angus on Thursday … Continue reading
Patient blog readers, I have good news for you! You may remember a while back I got together with some other awesome Ontario YA post apocalyptic/dystopian authors and did a little tour? And then asked where you all would like … Continue reading
I wrote a post a couple weeks ago for readers on one aspect of offering feedback to writers, and that got me thinking about what I’d most want to say to my fellow writers — currently published or aspiring — … Continue reading
Keeping up the tradition of discussing the unofficial soundtracks of my books after the release! Be warned: these posts may contain vague spoilers for The Lives We Lost. The first song on my unofficial soundtrack for the second book in … Continue reading
I thought you all might be interested to know that Jessica at Read My Breath Away is doing a Megan Crewe week right now. And that includes a very special post in which I give the first bits of information … Continue reading
Every so often I’m reminded that things that have started to seem natural, now that I’ve been enmeshed in the publishing industry for some time, are not actually obvious, or even seemingly sensical, to the average reader. So I thought … Continue reading