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The book’s a cake!
A short blog post today, because I’m still riding the high of a book party my three grownup-children (and two partners!) threw for me this afternoon. And they did. With about 24 hours to go, they swooped in – one pair from the nation’s capital, another just recently returned from Banff, and a singleton from an overnight camp job. Working together, they pulled together one of the best days I’ve ever had. The kids even turned the book into a cake! People wandered in and out all afternoon – former and current colleagues, the ladies I met in prenatal class… Read more…
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All kinds of relationships
As Pride month comes to an end (in fact, Toronto’s Pride Parade is today), I’m thinking about a pair of characters in Another Glass of Tea who were a surprise to me. I intentionally set out to ensure that my secondary and tertiary characters reflected the wide variety of backgrounds and experiences I see in people around me, and in cities near me. That means that Fiona has a group of friends in Toronto with a variety of heritages. Different writers have different processes. For me, I knew there were certain markers along the way, and definite scenes and moments that would have… Read more…
