The kind folks at Shepherd.com (a new Goodreads alternative for book recommendations) asked me to put together a listicle on some of my favourite reads. It's hard to pick from […]

This June Western Canada demolished all its heat records. Lytton, BC, recorded the hottest temperature ever north of 50° latitude. The town burned down in a wildfire the next day. […]

One of the things I do when I meet someone for the first time and perhaps have only met them online or read their full name until this point, is […]

Just because I won't be in New Zealand doesn't mean I won't be at CoNZealand. Here's a look at my schedule, which is packed! The con is entirely online this […]

For today's My Murdered Darling, author Wendy Nikel talks about the difficulties in shortening The Continuum from novel to novella length, and why it was so hard to cut one […]

I've roadtripped with Curtis Chen, so can vouch for the fact that he knows all about the tensions of long voyages in small confined spaces with questionable travel companions. Here […]

Today I'm kicking off a new and somewhat (artistically) violent KatTales feature: My Murdered Darling. Every author has some favourite thing that didn't make it into their final story, whether […]

Today in Prime Writing, Elle E. Ire is here to tell us about one of the more difficult tasks an author faces—making unlikeable characters likeable—and how she brought the lessons […]