This week, while on book tour in Canada, I guest blogged on the fantastic website 49th Shelf, a site that celebrates Canadian literature. In the spirit of giving them the web traffic they deserve, please click here for my piece on mining memories to create new fiction. I hope you enjoy…and maybe while you’re on […]
I write fiction about the future, but that doesn’t mean the future I invent is fictitious. And while I can’t study the future the way historical novelists can study the past, I can, and do, extrapolate today’s trends into future possibilities. And I say possibilities, because it’s my hope that in some small part, my books […]
Home town boy makes good! I’ll be back in my home town of Burlington, Ontario to read from MetaWars and sign books. 2pm at Chapters Fairview, 3315 Fairview Street, Burlington, Ontario L7N 3N9. They’ve got a Facebook page for the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/806096516146689/
I’ll be reading from MetaWars at Chapters Brampton, Ontario and signing books. Please come by and say hello! They’ve got a Facebook page for the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1379973515634984/
I joined a panel hosted by Lisa Edwards to talk about boys (and men) reading…a subject close to my heart. It was a great panel, sparked a good discussion on twitter, and I blogged about it here
Yesterday at the London Book Fair, I participated in a panel hosted by publisher Lisa Edwards about boys and men reading. If you know me well, you know this is a subject I’m passionate about. I was a reluctant reader as a boy, and getting (and keeping) boys reading guides my writing. My goal is to […]
OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES
Right now, most of the children’s book world is in Bologna, Italy. The rest of us are busy writing! For the uninitiated, the annual Bologna Book Fair is a massive market in children’s book rights. Sarah McIntyre has done a groovy blog post on it, which you can read here. It’s like a big […]
I finally saw The Nether last night, Jennifer Haley’s award-winning play about the consequences of living life in a virtual world. It was gripping and disturbing, raising important questions at the outset of a new digital age. Of course for me, what was most interesting was that many of the themes are core MetaWars concepts: – The […]
You’d have to be locked in the truck of a car to avoid the “news” of Jeremy Clarkson’s suspension from the wildly popular Top Gear TV show for allegedly striking a producer. Now, I don’t know Mr. Clarkson personally, though I don’t care for his public persona (he basically strikes me a a bully), but […]
