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…
Good news everyone! Alan Cumming’s performance of the Zorgamazoo audiobook has been awarded Best Male Solo Performance from the Audio Publishers Association. Most of all, I was really happy he read…
Remember a few weeks ago? I posted about a reader who got a tattoo of Katrina Katrell on her freakin’ arm? True ting. I kid you not. Well,…