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From encyclopedias to Google: Looking things up in life and writing

Jul 24, 2020 | Blog | 4 comments

Amongst the many bookshelves in my childhood home, one of them (although not pictured here) held an encyclopedia set. In that pre-Internet world, those twenty-five volumes (hardcover and bound in cream with touches of red, black and gold) were my window on the wider...

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  • Get “Summer on Firefly Lake” on Kindle for only $1.99 (US/Canada), July 5-August 2, 2021 6 July 2021
  • Signing with a literary agent for women’s fiction 26 April 2021
  • I’m one of twelve women writers contributing to “What is the One Thing the Pandemic Has Taught You About Writing?,” an essay by Sweta Vikram in Brevity Magazine 20 March 2021
  • I’m a contributor to “Lockdown Writing,” a blog post by romance author, Emma Bennet 2 March 2021
  • Check out my contribution to “3 Goals Every Writer Should Make in the New Year!,” an essay by Sweta Vikram in Brevity Magazine 4 January 2021
  • Guest post for Writers First: Why Work with a Writing Coach? 6 November 2020
  • Interview with North Grenville Writers Circle for Ontario Public Library Week 2020 (YouTube video)  30 October 2020
  • Interview with The Writer’s Pet about my dog, animals in my fiction & ‘A Wish in Irish Falls’ 27 October 2020
  • Author interview: Chatting with Ruby Moone on the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) blog about ‘A Wish in Irish Falls’ 22 October 2020
  • Finding Your Writing Voice: Guest Post for Frost Magazine 13 October 2020

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