Last month (April 2013), I headed off to the Texas Library Conference, held in Fort Worth, just outside Dallas. I was a guest on a few panels, speaking…
Good news everyone: Zorgamazoo has been awarded Germany’s prize for best children’s audiobook of 2012. My German is quite poor (non-existent), but with the help of a German-speaking friend…
A quick word about the gorgeous artwork produced by Victor Rivas for my new verse novel Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff. He recently posted his…
Today I stared down Jack Kerouac’s 120 foot scrolled manuscript of On the Road, currently on display at the British Library. According to legend, Kerouac banged it out in a three-week…
I’m deep in the trenches of a new book at the moment, which is why I haven’t posted anything in quite a while. But having returned this week…
As some reading this already know, I’m moving to London, England. This is partly for the sake of my wife, who is a production designer specialising in theatrical…
Last week I did and interview with Dan Evans, who works at the wonderful Bookshelf Cafe & Cinema in Guelph, Ontario. He also happens to be one of…
This week, I did an event called Meet the Writers, part of the TIFF Kids film festival. Film festival? you ask. But I thought you wrote books. Indeed,…
It was a great honour to win the California Young Reader Medal, one of the biggest and best reader-driven awards in the world. I travelled to Pasadena to…
On July 10, 2011, the New York Times Book Review printed a great little essay by Roger Rosenblatt, called “The Writer as Detective.” I liked it so much…