Yesterday thanks to a time difference between Manitoba and our neighbouring province, I was dressed and at my desk by 7 am to chat with Lindsey Ecker’s high school English class at United Mennonite Educational Institute in southern Ontario. They had just finished reading my novel Lost on the Prairie . On Friday their teacher […]
Yesterday I was at the Christmas Market at the Steinbach Mennonite Heritage Village Museum selling my novels. A young woman named Amy came up to me and said both she and her husband were former students of mine. Turns out Amy has a jewelry business called Daizy and Dot and was at the Christmas Market […]
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Check out both my novels Lost on the Prairie and Sixties Girl in the bottom left hand corner of the photo There was an international book fair in Frankfurt, Germany October 18-22 and my publisher Heritage House had a display there which included both of my novels. With my husband Dave on the Eiserner Steg […]
Tomorrow I will be doing a school presentation for a class of grade six kids here in Winnipeg whose teacher just finished reading them my novel Lost on the Prairie. One of the things the teacher wants me to talk about with them is where I get my ideas for the things I write. She […]
My friend Erin suggested I make a playlist for my novel Sixties Girl so I’ve created one on YouTube and you can find it here. Thanks so much, Erin for the suggestion. Each song on the list is featured somewhere in the book. Laura is one of the narrators in Sixties Girl. Both I Feel […]
Sixties Girl with a glass of Chardonnay and one of France’s famous galettes The city of Paris plays a role in my latest novel Sixties Girl. Laura, one of the narrators has a surprising discussion with a classmate named Gloria on their high school graduation night. Gloria tells Laura she is moving to Paris. In […]
This lovely photo of my novel appeared on the Library of A Misfit Instagram page I’m hoping summer will provide a bit of a break from the busyness of the author part of my life. But I find if I wait too long to do updates about what’s going on with my novels I forget […]
I’m really excited about a literary event I’ll be participating in on June 24th at The Public a brewhouse on Main Street in Steinbach where I grew up. Photo by Aaron Epp for The Canadian Mennonite I’ll be reading from my latest novel Sixties Girl. Mitch’s new book of short stories Pinching Zwieback comes out […]
MaryBeth became a part of our family when we lived in Arizona In the early 1990s we visited our good friend MaryBeth in Massachusetts. MaryBeth had become like one of the family during the year we taught together and lived together on the same compound on the Hopi First Nation in Arizona. The year after […]
My high school bestie Deb Fast was at the launch of my novel Sixties Girl and it was her idea I take a photo with Miriam Toews. Deb and I both grew up in Steinbach just like Miriam Toews did. Miriam has become one of Canada’s most well-known and celebrated writers. I would never have […]
