Mel’s Blog
This weekend in Leaksdale, Ontario the Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario is holding its annual L.M. Montgomery Day featuring lectures and discussions by Benjamin Lefebvre, Vanessa Brown, Kate MacDonald [...]
I had the summer all planned. MAY: Submit the next draft of the Maud novel after an incredible ten days doing social media for the National Reading Campaign's Reading Town [...]
Over the past year I have had the pleasure of getting to know Karen Krossing. A compassionate writer, she is committed to understanding and helping other writers -- including me. I [...]
Well it is summer and I've been traveling and being terrible about keeping up with the blog. But what I have been doing is reading. Reading books by writers I [...]
Today, I have the privilege of announcing the Canadian exclusive cover reveal of K.A. Barson's Charlotte Cuts it Out, releasing April 5, 2016. In conjunction with Tirzah Price’s blog, The Compulsive Reader [...]
The past year I've been in a process of reinventing myself. It has been a journey into discovering my sense of self worth and what it means to show up [...]
We were driving to an L.M. Montgomery photography exhibit, featuring some of the pictures she had taken throughout her life, when Rachel McMillan read the news. The three of us [...]
I'm so excited to welcome critically acclaimed YA science fiction author, Amy Rose Capetta. Amy Rose is a fellow VCFAer who inspires me with her commitment to writing, her talent [...]
Andrea Lindsay and I met in Montreal during the late 1990s at the large bookstore where we both worked. She was just starting out as a musician and I was finishing [...]
"'What do you take me for?' he asked. 'Do you think I'm the kind of fellow that'd would leave you out there at Brewster's when you're so homesick, just because [...]
I have known Laura Ingalls Wilder since I was seven years old when my parents purchased the entire set for me for my birthday. At first I didn't know what [...]
copyright, Yuka Kajihara Last night, Laura Robinson, Benjamin Lefebvre and I gave a talk at the North York Central Library in Toronto, Ontario, The Canadian Home Front: L.M. Montgomery's [...]
