Sylvia McNicoll

It takes a lot to pry me from my office but once a year a few kids’ writers meet for potluck at Marilyn Helmer’s in Bellwood.  It’s a drive with lots of horses gambolling in fields next to the road– my favourite kind.  These writers are foodies so there was a carrot…

A brilliant writer herself, Amy Corbin, a teacher from R.H. Lagerquist Senior Public School, arranged a day of writing workshops for the students who wrote to tell her why they wanted to work with a published author. I lead four short workshops to groups of about 20…

The Beauty Series: Bringing Up Beauty, A Different Kind of Beauty and Beauty Returns, represents the books for which I’m best known. Essentially they follow Elizabeth as she fosters first a black Lab, Beauty I, then a Chocolate Lab, Beauty II, and finally a…

To keep up with trends for babies my editing job with Today’s Parent Toronto, I like to go to the various baby shows. I dragged my son Craig (and film maker for my excellent new trailer, and his baby girl Violet. Not in the photo is beautiful Mom Eirean and Bob,…