Blog Categories: New Books

Reading and signing this Saturday

  Monkeyshines Children’s Books is such a fun place to explore! On Saturday, May 31, I will be reading from Ospreys in Danger and signing books, so please drop in and say hello.  We...

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From call to launch: Two years, three months and 17 days

My telephone – my rather retro home landline – has a strange feature: it announces the caller.  I found that annoying right from the start because it garbled simple words.  I mean, really, how difficult is “Grandma...

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BOOK LAUNCH of Ospreys in Danger

I hope you’ll join me in celebrating the launch of Ospreys in Danger on Saturday, May 10, 1:00 – 3:00 pm at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary.  I’ll share a bit of the book...

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Adele Trivia Quiz

In 2008, Adele came to world-wide attention with her first album.  Since then she has sold millions of albums and won buckets of awards – and dropped out of sight.  Her rocky relationships were...

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Test your trivia knowledge: Michael Phelps

Here’s a quiz to test how much you know about one of the best-known athletes in the United States and around the world.  At the London Olympics, he became the most-decorated Olympian of all time. ...

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A new Michael Phelps biography for 2013!

Researching this biography was a lot of fun – Phelps is an interesting guy with an interesting story.  There are always a few things I can’t squeeze into my books, including a few little...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrated this month

Fifty years have passed since Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream”.  On August 28, President Obama will give a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where King stood half...

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Hables Espanol?

I can order three beer in Japanese and ask for directions to the washroom in French, but I can’t claim to be truly fluent in any language other than English.  And sometimes even that’s...

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