Literary Collective Nouns by Tom Gauld

This was just too fantastic not to share! credit: Tom Gauld

Hard Lessons Learned on the Road to Representation

On February 17, 2021 (I Read Canadian Day, at that!) I received an agency agreement from Ammi-Joan Paquette of Erin Murphy Literary Agency. And I could barely believe it was real. But no matter how many times I tested it, by closing my email and reopening it, it didn’t disappear. It was still there.  It…

Aweedz

Sometimes I feel like my daughter did one evening when she was about 5 years old. We were having dinner that night when she said this word: “aweedz.” She must have really liked the sound of it because she kept repeating it with increasing exuberance: “Aweedz. Aweedz. Aweedz. Aweedz!” I finally asked her, “What’s aweedz?”…

#accessiblementalhealthcare

Lets talk about accessible mental health care ... Talking isn’t enough. We need to do better. (click on title to continue reading)

#whosSherman

I usually have a general sense of where a scene is going while I’m writing. But sometimes lines like, — her vision was a blur as she rounded the fence and ran up the driveway, kicking up dusty gravel behind her. She didn’t even hear Sherman call, “Hey Rosie —!” before she dashed behind the…