31 October 2023

October 2023 has been an incredible, powerful, heartbreaking month. I admit that the struggle to keep going amidst all of the politics and everything going on in the outside world has left me with very low energy. I’ve turned to listening and learning rather than commenting. Prompted by synchronicities, I have reached for stories of…

9 January 2017

I’ve been busy figuring out war and the nature of power these days. To Read Up On Hypatia of Alexandria and build more of the Sibylline world, I went to the Greek warriors. Here is my novel research reading for this week. Greek Philosophers and War Thucydides’ was exactly the kind of wisdom Hypatia would…

8 April 2016

Diversity in CanLit is an important topic that doesn’t often get discussed. A while back I jumped in to work with the team at Authors For Indies – a fun and festive celebration of independent bookstores across Canada and the authors who love them taking place on April 30 this year.  My book segment on Roundhouse Radio seemed the…