Award winner!

Splinters was named a Nautilus Silver award winner!

Wow.

I was absolutely blown away this week. My book Neil Flambe and the Marco Polo Murders was the winner of the Silver Birch award for Fiction. This award is an author's favourite - because it's voted on by students in grades 4-6 all across Ontario. The finalists are always amazing, and the list this year was great.

This is me at the ceremony on a windy day at Harbourfront.

(That's Eric Walters to my left wondering why I'm dressed like a goof... I mean chef).

Too loong...

Boy has it been a long time since I posted. OOPS. I've just wrapped up an amazing week in Quebec touring as part of the TD Bookweek! Something like 18 school visits over 5 days. I'll be at Pages in St. Leonard tomorrow. I hope to have some pics up soon. In the meantime, here are some pics from my recent research trip to Paris. I drew little Neil Flambe pics on all the placemats... did the staff throw them out? burn them? keep them? Dunno....

A while back I blogged about a wolf logo I designed for my friend Sean's School. Well, now they are painting an official version on the gym wall... so COOL

Feeling honoured

Both Neil Flambe books AND Splinters made the Resource Links top books of 2010 list. Wow.

nice nod for my friends and Neil Flambe

Neil Flambe gets a nice honourable mention nod from the OLA.

another

Neil Flambe heads to Tokyo in Book #4 (if it ever gets published) so this one seems to have a slight Japanese bend to the chef hat....