An interview with Philippa Dowding, award-winning author of 13 books for middle-grade readers, including Oculum, Firefly, and Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet. She is also a poet, a musician, and a copywriter. Hear about her attraction to weird plot possibilities, her occasional tendency to spook herself while writing, and her encounter with a gargoyle in… Continue reading Cabin Tales Author Interview #11: Philippa Dowding
Author: Catherine Austen
I'm a Canadian author of books for all ages. My short stories are published in literary journals including The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly. My books for young readers have won multiple awards, including the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award and the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Children's Literature. I live with my family in Gatineau, Quebec.
Cabin Tales Author Interview #10: Wendy McLeod MacKnight
An interview with Wendy McLeod MacKnight, author of three books for middle-grade readers, who shares her habit of drafting quickly and revising painstakingly, her advice on getting to know your characters before you write them, and her delighted surprise at discovering Voldemort under Quirrell’s turban. 20 minutes. https://soundcloud.com/user-727542232/ct2-i10-wendy-mcleod-macknight?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Read the full transcript: CT2-WendyMcleodMacknight-TranscriptDownload Show Notes… Continue reading Cabin Tales Author Interview #10: Wendy McLeod MacKnight
national public readings
April 2021 Update: The readings listed below have passed, but I have one more National Public Reading coming up on June 9th, hosted by the Muskoka Authors Association, about writing for children and adults. Many thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers Union of Canada for the NPR Program. While I'm… Continue reading national public readings
Cabin Tales Author Interview #9: Amelinda Bérubé
Amelinda Bérubé, author or spooky YA novels The Dark beneath the Ice and Here There are Monsters, shares her favourite plot twists, books and characters, her interest in unreliable narrators, and her love of the Canadian landscapes that inspire her stories. 20 minutes. https://soundcloud.com/user-727542232/author-interview-with-amelinda-berube?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Read the full transcript: CT2-AmelindaBerube-TranscriptDownload Show Notes [0:00] Intro [1:10] Interview… Continue reading Cabin Tales Author Interview #9: Amelinda Bérubé
Cabin Tales Author Interview #8: Monique Polak
An interview with Monique Polak, author of 29 books for young people and teacher of English and Humanities at Marianopolis College in Montreal. Hear about her attraction to delinquent characters, her commitment to work through good writing days and bad ones, and her ability to recognize a promising story idea by the tingling in her… Continue reading Cabin Tales Author Interview #8: Monique Polak
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