When I was walking out of the first writing conference I ever attended, an SCBWI Canada East conference in Ottawa, two older women stopped me. I must have looked a little lost, wandering around alone. I was still in high school, and if I’m nervous about networking now, back then,…
Group projects. I’m sorry, I should have given you more warning before including something so terrifying in this blog post. Do you need a few minutes? Let’s wade in slowly. groouuuu…. ouuuppp… projects. (phew!) I have never encountered a single student who seemed pleased to be given a group, rather…
Last week, I tried to persuade you to join me in my fangirling for Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series. This week, allow me to make the case for another series. Just like last week’s, this one is incomplete; just like last week’s, the final volume is scheduled for publication in…
Dear friends and family: so many of you are waiting for the next installment of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice saga. I can’t say that I feel your exact pain, since I’m not into Game of Thrones, but I do know the frustration of waiting…