Welcome to the final stop on the Dundurn Press blog tour for Ron Sexsmith’s new book, Deer Life! When I was asked if I might be interested in taking part in this tour I knew I had only one...
Dear A Stranger in the House, When I read your ‘sister book’, The Couple Next Door, I was struck by the effective use of red herrings, character twists and plot turns. Could this be...
Dear Amos’s Sweater, I was sorting through a huge box of donations last week when you fell out at my feet. As it was only last month that your author, the esteemed Janet Lunn, passed away, it...
Eighteen-year-old Cam Scott is angry. He’s angry about his absent dad, he’s angry about being angry, and he’s angry that he has had to give up his Ottawa basketball team to follow...
Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited the world of fairytales. She...
When chubby, geeky Wylder Wallace spills lunch on cool and aloof Addy Crowe at Toronto’s Comicon, she dashes to the bathroom, leaving behind the latest issue of her uncle’s steampunk...
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” ― Umberto...
Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. “It’s a special occasion,” she said to her boyfriend...
Things are getting desperate for Maya and her friends. Hunted by the powerful St. Clouds and now a rival Cabal as well, they’re quickly running out of places to hide. And with the whole world...
On his first day at Turner King, David Stewart quickly realizes that the world of international PR (affectionately, perhaps ironically, known as “the dark side”) is a far cry from his...