Sylvia McNicoll

Much of where I think would be a great place to read is not where I actually do.  Here’s where I would have liked to have read The Tiffin  a very moving story of the lives changed when a message goes astray in one of those large metal lunch buckets used to deliver hot…

Early Saturday morning I was heading to an Access Copyright meeting in the Star Building at the foot of Yonge. At the south end of Lower Jarvis I happened on a location I’d heard about and always wanted to see: Sugar Beach.  And I had the perfect book to read,…

This is my grandaughter Violet’s official first book.  I’m sure there were many other board books that she gummed along the way but How Do You Read to a Rabbit is her go-to favourite because she loves the pictures.  She loves animals, anyway, but how can…

My e-reader, just like my laptop, closely resembles my favourite childhood toy, my etch a sketch.  Okay, hands down physical books are still better.  I like to know where I’m at in a book, if I’m close to the end in physical page thickness.  My ereader…

Lucy usually writes scary novels like The Mysterious Mummer or Walking with the Dead (a Silver Birch Winner) but here she’s collaborating with my daughter Robin McNicoll to touch up some illustrations on a new graphic novel.  It’s still in grant proposal…

Nothing to do with writing or selling books, I just love sandcastles.  For the past couple of years I’ve been a judge in Burlington’s Sandcastle Competition.  I wouldn’t say I’m an expert in anything sandy but I just love the sculptures and the…