Sylvia McNicoll

A brand new book is born and the world keeps spinning. Reviews come in, or not.  A story makes a 10 best list.  Or not.  It’s nominated for a major award…  Well, you get the picture. We tweet, blog, post on Facebook, sign, and speak but mostly we just want to write….

People came! Always a speaker’s first concern but when you initiate and help organize a writing panel, you can lose sleep over it. Frankly, I panicked when both our local book store A Different Drummer Books and our community paper The Burlington Post thought…

Writers share a common passion, a kind of living-in-our-imagination-and then-pouring-it-on-paper- pastime that can make us lonely. If we’re lucky we find each other. In Burlington, my home base, I have found Jennifer Maruno, Rebecca Bender, Jennifer Mook-Sang…

It starts off politely enough with the disclaimer freebie readers are required to use: “Thank you Netgalley for the free review copy in exchange for my honest opinion.” Then it launches into “Mother******g piece of s**t, this to describe my newborn…

I am your local author.   To celebrate Family Literacy Day 0n Saturday January 24, 10:30 to 11:30 I will read from my some of my favourite picture books at Tansley Woods Library, 1996 Itabashi Way in Burlington. When I first began writing middle grade and young…

 My core belief is that everyone should enjoy reading. At the beginning of my career I would have said kids who don’t like reading either a) have a difficulty/disability with reading or b) haven’t found the right book. A difficulty could be as simple as…