Showing posts with label spies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spies. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Carnevale in Venezia!!!

 It's that time of year again: gray and rainy often over the Venetian lagoon, but the lanes and canals (calles and rios) are bursting with life and colour, especially vivid after sunset. 

Writing Maddie's Venetian adventure, TIMELY TAFFETA, was such fun! Hours and hours spent following Carnevale parades and revelers, and then imagining Steampunk and spies lurking and plotting amongst them, the intrigues and revelations ticking along with occasional startling gongs and fireworks!

 
 

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Award Season is upon us!

Some news from Award Season!

First there's this:


Maddie is back on the BPAA Shortlist for her New York City Adventure! You'll find in Gilded Gauge oodles of parasol dueling, spies, intrigue, bumbling detectives, and of course Tweetle-D up to his usual antics while dodging the big-city predatory birds who want to find out if he's edible.

(For more on the Books Publishing in Alberta Awards, check out their online home)

 And then there's THIS! A second nomination for the Prix Aurora!


Claps for fellow writers Gerald Brandt, Julie Czerneda, Fonda Lee, and Elizabeth Whitton, most of whom I know from that lively summer lit-fest, When Words Collide, held each August in Calgary (and usually sold out by June).

(It's not too late to join the CSFFA and vote for your favourite authors and artists in all categories. For the full shortlist go to https://prixaurorawards.ca/home/nominee-list-page/ )