Sylvia McNicoll

This is the second book in a series I’m working on where the main character dies in the first chapter, stupidly, and meets someone dead from her past at the gates of entry into the next life.  The character begs to return to life to address regrets and is granted the…

This is my daughter Jen reading to her four year old son William at their campfire at the Pinery Campground.  What amazes me is how intent he is in a story that he’s had read to him a hundred times, The Magic Mustache by Gary Barwin.  In it the son who is a…

You read about all kinds of non-traditional families but you have to wonder how a child feels when their mom or dad announces something like a sex change or in Soames’ case a father declares he’s breaking up with Mom and moving in with his guy lover….

It had been a blistering hot week but for Imagine in the (Gage)Park, there had been a cooling rain the morning of the July 24th event.  Gary Barwin, Jean Little, Gillian Chan, myself as well as facepainters, voice coaches, puppeteer  and Frontier literacy volunteers…

The lazyboy chair makes a very comfortable seat for reading this gripping but uncomfortable story. It’s about a boy who is the only member in his family who gets along with his abusive father  and misses him after he, his mom and sister, go into a witness…

You’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover but this novel is a Chapters’ staff pick fave. I could have paid way less had I bought it in eversion but then I couldn’t have shared it with Mortie. Honestly, the cover made me smile. The dog who…