As mentioned elsewhere, A Rhyme in Time was my “lockdown novel“. Unfortunately, the economic pressures of the pandemic also saw Zorgamazoo‘s publisher, Razorbill Books, cease operations, merging with…
As some reading this may know, in 2008 I published the small, strange, children’s fantasy-in-verse, Zorgamazoo. It’s the story of Katrina Katrell, an adventure-obsessed girl, who teams up…
Back in the spring of 2020, a little twitter thread made me smile: It still cracks me up. It also makes me wonder. How would you take Zorgamazoo?…
This week a strange, unexpected, and rather wonderful thing happened. I appeared on television. And I have Dr. Seuss to thank. It happened like this… In 2013, a nearly complete…
This morning I read an article about a “quiet revolution” in theoretical physics. According to Max Tegmark, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consciousness may in fact be an…
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…
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…
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…