Friday Chatter: Advent
Are you excited for THE INFINITE coming out? Is there anything you’d especially like to see in the days up until then - especially anything I didn’t already...
ANNOUNCING: THE INFINITE Advent calendar!
Two months to go until THE INFINITE's launch, and I'm so excited to share the conclusion of this trilogy with all of you! And since the book comes out in...
ANNOUNCING: THE INFINITE Advent calendar!
Two months to go until THE INFINITE's launch, and I'm so excited to share the conclusion of this trilogy with all of you! And since the book comes out in...
Friday Chatter: Empathy
Tell me about a time when a book - or some other work of fiction in some other medium - helped increase your empathy or understanding of other people. Do you...
Friday Chatter: Empathy
Tell me about a time when a book - or some other work of fiction in some other medium - helped increase your empathy or understanding of other people. Do you...
Fiction and Empathy
I’m continuing to (slowly) read Keith Oatley's "Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction" and I'm struck by his research into fiction and empathy....
Fiction and Empathy
I’m continuing to (slowly) read Keith Oatley's "Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction" and I'm struck by his research into fiction and empathy....
Friday Chatter: Socials
We all come to this Substack from different places; some of us have the pressures applied on social media that are commonly applied to authors, and some of...
Friday Chatter: Socials
We all come to this Substack from different places; some of us have the pressures applied on social media that are commonly applied to authors, and some of...
Three Uncomfortable Things About Twitter
I'm not leaving Twitter yet, partly because - with everything else going on in my writing life and personal life - I haven't been able to make time to sit...
Three Uncomfortable Things About Twitter
I'm not leaving Twitter yet, partly because - with everything else going on in my writing life and personal life - I haven't been able to make time to sit...
A post in support of CUPE
I'm going to uncharacteristically veer into politics this week because I'm so relieved about something that just happened here in Ontario. I've been...
A post in support of CUPE
I'm going to uncharacteristically veer into politics this week because I'm so relieved about something that just happened here in Ontario. I've been...
My House Is... Cute??
This will be a little tiny bit of a "woo" post - appropriately, I suppose, for the time of year. I've been writing here about my animistic conviction that my...
My House Is... Cute??
This will be a little tiny bit of a "woo" post - appropriately, I suppose, for the time of year. I've been writing here about my animistic conviction that my...
Friday Chatter: Apologies
This week’s post was about apologies. Tell me about a time when you saw a problem resolved well without a formal apology.
Friday Chatter: Apologies
This week’s post was about apologies. Tell me about a time when you saw a problem resolved well without a formal apology.
Sometimes you don't need to apologize.
Here’s a quick social skills lesson for folks who might not know it yet, or who might need the refresher. Sometimes people make mistakes and need to...
Sometimes you don't need to apologize.
Here’s a quick social skills lesson for folks who might not know it yet, or who might need the refresher. Sometimes people make mistakes and need to...
Friday Chatter: Google Glasses
Been a while since I had a new poem out, so let’s talk about this one. “Google Glasses” is less about Google as a corporation, and more about the urge to...
