more doodles

From time to time I post the doodles I do during story meetings when I'm wearing my radio hat. I love ball point pens. Here's the latest.

ME in triplicate... yikes!

This is from Lakefield. Adam and Chris played younger and older versions of me in the intro to my reading. COOL!

Lakefield

I had an amazing weekend in Lakefield for the literary festival there. It's a town obsessed with books (Margaret Laurence, Susanna Moodie and her sis all lived there). They treat authors like royalty. Here's the display in the local Hardware store for Splinters! WOW

great news!

Here's the story on the Quill and Quire blog about Neil Flambe's new home.

I'm over the moon-cake thrilled.

Book Three is called NF and the Crusader's Curse. Here's a pic from my trip to Rye, Sussex and the Rye Museum.

Scared?

The Award!

I just realized I never posted this year's actual Silver Birch Award (on the right). A young TDSB student won a contest to design this year's award!

Game Day

Game Day - my behind the scenes look at the world of sports - is a starred recommendation in Canadian Children's Bookcentre Booknews "Best Books 2011". :)

cat d'oeuvres

This is my mood today.

I need to do some (a lot) of restructuring before I can turn this into a finished piece, but it's where my brain is at I'm afraid.