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(Half a) Story Hour 📻 📚
Half an hour of stories for kids - and “kids” of all ages! #ReadResponsibly
A Prairie Transplant’s (First) Conference 🌾
Runnin’ back to Saskatoon to work on words… (Lyrics: The Guess Who)
The Turning of the Year 🍂
A New Year for nerds: thanks to the bees, condolences to the SiWC…
June Blooms
It’s a bloomin’ rainbow 🌈 #FoundStories #BackyardPride
May Snaps (No Dragons, Yet) 📷🌷
May happy snappies… morning and evening garden glories. #FoundStories
(Plosive) April Showers ☔️🎙️
It never rains but it pours plosive “Ps…”
I Always Liked Jar Jar Binks ✨
Best says it best: it’s been “‘our redemption, as the people who love Star Wars.’” (Quote: The Guardian)
“Ignorance Is Strength”
What year is it, again? 📚 (Sticker: gibbs-smith.com)
Rêveries boulangerie / Bakery Reveries 🥐
La plainte de l’écrivaine sans boulangerie 24h. / 24-hour bakeries: a lament.
This Week (a Dork!) in Radio… 📻
This week in radio: a dork makes invisible faces…
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Exclamations (aside)…!
Stocking Resolution 🧦
Heroic hosiery: the return of the prodigal sock. #foundstories
Maeve’s 5-minute Master Class ❤️
A Valentine’s Day master class from a maestra of the human heart and the queen of Irish storytelling Herself, Maeve Binchy.
Concept Art by Sadie and a “Raven” Review
Middle grade manuscript: concept art by Sadie and a “raven” review!
A Writers’ Conference Quick Start Guide
A handy guide to writers’ conference mayhem. (Image: SiWC)
En pointe… 🩰
En pointe in our new home! #foundstories
Thank You, She Wrote 🐦⬛✨
Thank you, Surrey, for another fantastic conference! (Also my education degree!)
SiWC: T-minus Eleven Days… 🦇🥀
That’s the Surrey International Writers’ Conference, if you’re wondering!
Alpha & Beta Readers: Making an Alphabet from the Soup
A hymn for heroes who hear and read stories while they’re still emerging from the soup of somebody’s “subconscious” mind.
Surrey International Writers’ Conference (SiWC), Round Two 🖋
The SiWC is coming! Well, more like I'm going to it. We'll meet in the middle.