Sylvia McNicoll

My daughter, Jennifer Filipowicz, a science fiction writer herself, introduced me to a new media form: blogging. Here Jennifer interviews me about crush.candy.corpse, writing and life in general. If you’d like to know more about her writing life visit her website…

We’re all obsessed, writers. We look for book reviews and count the stars and worry about the comments and why someone can seemingly love everything about a story and then just give it 2.5 stars. As though the reviewer has a very limited budget of stars in their…

  Okay, I was beating a dead horse, trying to explain how Bill C11 affects writers, how school boards and ministries were trying to opt out of paying anything for copying and downloading copyright files under the umbrella of educational “fair…

My ereader resembles my favourite toy: an etch a sketch. It fits a gazillion books and slips into my purse, most importantly, the version I have, allows me to make scribbly notes (that I likely can’t read later) on the text. So why hasn’t it replaced the…

What does my new GPS have to do with my 1999 title Grave Secrets?  Lately I’ve been reading all the books on the Red Maple list so that when I meet the authors May 15th, I will know a little about them, perhaps their voice if nothing else.  So far I’ve…

 This isn’t Hollywood.  We have no production budget.  I created a great script but became too busy to audition actors who would have to fill the roles with no reimbursement.   A publisher I worked with once told me she wanted a Q & A with an author. Meh….