I will eventually have blog posts and news here.
For now, I've haphazardly imported old blog posts.
The posts look at lot better on the old WordPress blog.
I will clean it up later!
2024 books!
I read 52 books in 2025, just barely making my goal. This is what my reading pattern looked like this year (chart from The Storygraph, my recommended book-tracking site): nothing 3 months into each school term – March and October. (Though it may not have been actually nothing – I…
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Memorable/Influential Books 2022-23
Well, I had hoped my reading would have improved in volume by now, but I’m still crawling out of a hole in my ability to concentrate. Last year (2022) I did just barely manage to make 52 books, but this past year (2023) I didn’t – I could have if…
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Books I Read in 2021, Part 3
Just Kids and M Train by Patti Smith After having it on my list for years, I finally got to Patti Smith’s memoir about her long friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. One of the most striking things about the story is the confluence: both Smith and Mapplethorpe became iconic cultural…
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Books I Read in 2021, Part 2
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Okay, yes, I have read this book umpteen times, starting when I was about 13 or 14, I think, when I stayed up all night to finish it. I even wrote a substantial poem about it in my second book, where I imagined Jane in…
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Books I Read in 2021, Part 1
Jeesh, January will be over soon, so I better get on my annual blog post! After a miserably light reading year in 2020, I was determined to make 95 books in 2021, but I could see right away that it would be an issue given how exhausted I was between…
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My Memorable 2020 Reading
At the top of my notes for this, my annual blog post, I wrote “memorable 2019 reading,” which is maybe just your average new year’s date error, but sure feels like an attempt to block something out. It was a year when, buoyed by my success in meeting the 95-books…
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2019 Year in Books
It’s time for my annual blog post about what I read in the past year! Buoyed up by having read 67 books in 2018—more, in fact, because I realized later there were a few that I had forgotten to count--in 2019, I joined the #95books challenge. I was way ahead…
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2018 Reading Challenge: Part 3
For my "favourite" books of 2018, I can’t just pick one thing from each genre – that seems a bit too artificial for how haphazard my reading was last year. Instead, I’ve just highlighted the books that I’m still thinking about the most, even months after reading them. Call them…
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2018 Reading Challenge: Part 2
My method of choosing books to read in 2018 looked systematic (I like systems) but had a whole lot of serendipity embedded in it. When I heard about, or remembered, or researched, or otherwise discovered, a book I wanted to read, I looked it up in the public library, and…
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2018 Reading Challenge: Part 1
What is this? An actual blog post? Yes, it is, only two years since the last one. The thesis novel I last updated you about is back up to 92,000 words and officially in draft 5 (but who’s counting); yes, I did get my degree, but that doesn’t mean the…
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Fiction, K.I. Press, Education and training, Writing Life
Taking the Scissors
I got a lot of use out the delete button over the past month while working on my thesis novel. So far, the thesis process has gone down more or less like this: Draft one: 60,000 words. Written over two summers, including all the outlining and such. Draft two: 89,000…
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Education and training, Movies
Gender Representation in Student Screenplays
In my intro screenwriting class, we do table reads of the students' short scripts before workshopping them. This year I started to notice that men seemed to be cast more than women. There's lot of research out there about unequal representation of gender in a variety of media. The Geena…
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Books, TV, Movies, Rants, Resources
Sometimes A Light Sabre is Just a Light Sabre
Happy New Year! It must be time for me to post on my blog. What I Did with My Winter Holidays First, why do I hardly ever post? It’s not just “time,” because, let’s face it, we make the time for the things that we want to make the time…
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Monsters Drawing Near
I've been a doodler for a long time, and this past winter gained a bit of doodling confidence when I took a grad course in making comics with the wonderful Sarah Leavitt. Here's a link to some of the comics that we created in that class and in some of…
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Publishing, Poetry, Book trade, Writing Life, Events
Notes on AWP 2015 from a Canadian first-timer
In no particular order... 1. America: the service really is better, notwithstanding the grumpy man at the New York Times booth (Picture not available). 2. But all the medical ads are unsettling. Also, did you know the art gallery doesn't allow guns on the premises? Now you do. [caption id=""…
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"I'm from the '90s, and I'm a sucker for Puccini": Q & A With Myself
Myself and I realized that we hadn't posted anything for a while, so we sat down at our disorganized desk today to ask and answer a few questions. The theme: personal taste, naming the books, movies, TV, and music we've actually been into lately, because the actual titles can tell…
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Writing Process Blog Tour
I recently got tagged in the Canadian Writers’ Writing Process Blog Tour, which has been going around for months. I was tagged by Ottawa writer Cameron Anstee. So, I’ve got four questions to answer: 1. What am I working on? Well, this is awkward, because that was what my last…
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In Which I Do Actually Write Stuff
When you define yourself as a writer—or, I suspect, any kind of artist—no matter how awesome your day job is (mine sure is!), it can really bring you down not to have the time or energy to create. I went through a really low productivity period for a few years,…
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The Final Frontier
What I’m talking about is SPACE. Somewhere along the way, someone took my space from me. Okay, everyone took my space from me. I didn’t have it for very long, and I miss it so. I remember as a child, how I longed for my own room. Do kids even…
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