Please join me on Friday, April 15th at 7:00pm at the North Vancouver City Library, 3rd Floor Singh Room, for a reading and talk about The Sky Is Falling.  Click here for information about all the readers at the North Shore Festival.

Screenwriter Michael MacLennan (Being Erica, JPod, Queer as Folk) is going to camera with a film version of my short story “Hauska Tutustua” from Pleased to Meet You.  Read more about the production.

It’s always a thrill to be translated.  The Women’s Publishing House in Hanoi has just published this anthology of short fiction by Canadian women writers, in Vietnamese.  My story “And the Children Shall Rise” from Bad Imaginings is included among work by Margaret Atwood, Annabel Lyon, Sandra Birdsell, Lisa Moore, and others.  This is the 17th anthology to reprint a story from Bad Imaginings.

Please join me for a talk sponsored by the Department of English at UNBC in Prince George.  March 10th, 11:00 am -1:30 pm, Room 7-212.

The Sky Is Falling is nominated for The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Canada and the Caribbean.  Read about all the shortlisted books.

Writer Daphne Gray-Grant interviewed me for her popular newsletter Publication Coach.  Read it here.

Is page 69 representative of the rest of the novel?  I put The Sky Is Falling to the test.  Read the test.

The Sky Is Falling is a January Magazine Best Book of 2010.  Read the entire list.

The Sky Is Falling is an Amazon.ca Best Book of 2010.  Read the entire list.

The Sky Is Falling is a Globe and Mail Top 100 book of 2010. Read the entire list.