In just a few weeks my novel for young readers, The Finding Place, will be published in both Canada and the States, by Red Deer Press. I’ve been asked quite a few times about my experiences with this novel, so I thought I would share some of those here, with a second blog entry to follow when the novel appears! I’ve always wanted to be a writer. Like a lot of the young writers who take my classes, I wrote my first novel before leaving school. Through university I continued writing, but despite winning a few awards and publishing stories in literary journals, a major publication deal eluded me. After that, I moved on. Got married, then emigrated to Canada, where we opened Centauri Summer [...]