Find out more about my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket
I’ll be at the Roberts Creek Legion Dec. 1, selling my popular picture book Six Stinky Feet and a Sasquatch, anthologies, and my nonfiction Vancouver’s Glory Years, which is now out of print. Only limited copies left. Will also have kermode bear photo cards, postcards, and fun sasquatch Christmas tree ornaments. Come and support local artisans and creators. Free coffee. Hope to see you there.
“I enjoyed your profile of me. Frequently, I feel that such things are about somebody else entirely, but in yours I did recognize myself talking quite loud and clear! Thanks, and I hope that we can meet again.” — Ursula Le Guin, in a note sent to me on her letterhead I thoroughly enjoyed…
I’m delighted to be offering the webinar “Trauma and truth-telling in memoir: the risks and rewards of revealing secrets” on Nov. 16 from 2:00 to 3:15 PST. I’m doing it through the U.S. foundation and magazine Creative Nonfiction. I’ll be drawing on first-hand experiences from writing my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket and will include…
I enjoyed my recent chat with Nelia Hutt, host of the Apple podcast Giving Starts With You, based in Barrie, Ont. Under the topic Writing As a Transformational Tool, I discussed how I help others find their voice when writing about traumatic events. I shared my experiences writing the incest memoir No Letter in Your…
I’ll be selling new books Emails from India: Women Write Home and Harbour Publishing’s Raincoast Chronicles 22 plus some new, fun products related to my picture book Gracie’s Got a Secret in Gibsons, BC. Author Michael Maser and I will be staffing the MW Book Publishing table at Sunnycrest Mall from 9 a.m. to 5…
It was fun presenting my new picture book, Six Stinky Feet and a Sasquatch, to an audience of young and old Dec. 7 at Sechelt Public Library. Andy Johnson, storyteller for the shishalh Nation, shared a sasquatch song he composed and told a sasquatch story. I’m honoured to know that he plans to read my…
I was delighted to interview author and poet Deena Metzger for a feature in the winter 1996 issue of Herizons, Canada’s feminist magazine. Click this Deena Metzger link to read my feature The Power of Writing: A Workshop with Deena Metzger. Since then, I’ve met Deena three more times at different U.S. conferences over the…