Sylvia McNicoll

It was a grey drizzly afternoon when we arrived in Ottawa but I hiked from the hotel to Parliament Hill immediately.  Just the sight of these buildings inspires me into belting out “Oh Canada” and I wanted to get that nationalistic feeling for when we broke bread with…

Currently the rotten economy has made the publishing industry leaner and meaner.  Rejection notes sound curt and dismissive.  So much so that I caught myself telling a relatively new writer the other day that I couldn’t believe I could make a living at it all…

This, the new Burlington Performing Arts Centre, makes a great setting to read Burlington’s newest children’s author, Jennifer Maruno’s Warbird .  While the publisher was Napoleon, that press has been digested by Dundurn. I bought the book from my…

The TD and The Canadian Children’s Book Centre know how to make an author feel special. Even if you’re not nominated, this year I don’t even have a book, out but the speakers always thank all of us for enriching kids’ lives and all Quicker…

For a long time I’ve wanted to visit Saint Mildred’s Lightbourn School.  Sometimes in co-ed schools I feel like I’ve let the boys down because I’ve written female protagonist stories.  Teachers have said to me “Girls read anything, but…

Thank you Burlington Public Library for hosting, not only another successful literary event: Sally Armstrong’s The Nine Lives of Charlotte Tayler evening, but for all the great programs and support you give writers as well as readers. I heard BPL’s Andrea…