Sylvia McNicoll
Canadian Author for Young People
The Summertime Bookstore Signing
What I like about a signing is that it’s a real and demonstrable effort to connect my book to readers without the need to be shortlisted for any prizes, which let’s face it, are hit and miss and certainly out of our control. Here’s something you can do that’s…
Different Creative Paths and Skink on the Brink
After 25 years of published writing, besides feeling more free to creatively stretch my writing fingers, I like to travel the path of mentorship and support. A personal delight of mine has become to welcome and support new writers. It’s very lucky to buy and…
Celebrating 20 Years of OLA Silver Birch & Forest of Reading
Seventeen years ago I won the third ever OLA (Ontario Library Association) Silver Birch Award for Bringing Up Beauty,(Fitzhenry Whiteside) a novel about best friends and boyfriends and fostering a puppy for Guide Dogs Canada. See above on the right my prize which is…
Engaging Characters take over the story
I never meant to write about them. The bombsquad using a robot to disengage a backpack “bomb”. A friendly crossing guard who twirls his stop sign like a baton and shares his driving judgements even though he can’t drive himself. And these two…
What I’m doing this summer: dogwalkers mystery.
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Fudge for Thought
Brown sugar melting with butter and milk, puckering up and popping a kiss of sweetness into the air, is there anything better? In Dying to Go Viral (Fitzhenry Whiteside) Jade lists making fudge as one of the things she wants to do in the one week do-over of her…
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