Sylvia McNicoll

 “I read nonfiction (exclusively) because I want to learn something.” It’s a troubling sentiment I’ve heard often enough.  It goes along with “fiction is a waste of time.” Readers feel everything in a novel is made up and therefor somehow untrue and unworthy.   What…

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At a CBC morning interview in Saskatoon last September I was asked how I connect to my teen audience, the unspoken end of the sentence may have been “when you’re as old as you are.”  I answered, perhaps too glibly, that people mistake writers for…

It used to be a no-brainer, autographing a novel that you wrote made it more valuable. The mere act of signing it in the bookstore created a bit of a hubbub around you, inevitably someone would buy a copy. You were a celebrity after all. Along came that film Notting…

Recently I needed to buy new footwear and I immediately knew where I would shop.  There was a small shoe store in a strip mall that had a huge fly poster.  Kids’ authors get this immediately.  “Of course, she wrote a book about a boy who kills flies for a…

As a writer, I love reading; it’s what led me to my career.  However, with deadlines and faster turnarounds to editorial suggestions and copy edits as well as increased responsibility for self/book promotion,  I often find myself sacrificing my reading….