I’ve always been a joiner. I’ve belonged to numerous organizations, including Toastmasters International, the Professional Writers’ Association of Canada, The Writers’ Union of Canada, and the Manitoba Writers’ Guild. There are other organizations I...
My flight back to Winnipeg from Hawaii wasn’t until many hours after landing in Vancouver, British Columbia, so I was thrilled at an offer from the Fairmont Vancouver Airport Hotel (a member of the ACCOR family of...
I started blogging in February of 2009, and what a ride it has been. In this post, I’d like to share a few of the favourite posts we’ve had on this blog judging by...
Thanks to Lorraine Reguly for nominating me for the Shine On bloggers award. I met Lorraine via the Bloggers Helping Bloggers sub-group on Linked In. Many of the readers of this and my chocolate...
It’s conference season! For me, it’s never about whether I will attend conferences. It’a about which ones to choose! As an active freelance writer (I celebrated 20 years in the freelancing business in April,...
As this year comes to a close, I’d like to thank each and every one of you who have visited this blog and contributed to the conversations over the past 3+ years. The posts...
This is a special, unscheduled post about The Next Big Thing, an author’s Work In Progress project from SheWrites. When I read A.K Andrews’s blog last week, I immediately thought what fantastic questions for any author to ask themselves....
I’ve just returned from the PWAC conference in Toronto, an opportunity for members of the Professional Writers Association of Canada to mix with other attendees and presenters at MagNet, the annual conference organized by...
I recently attended the annual conference of The Writers’ Union of Canada (informally known as “TWUC” by the writing and publishing community) in Vancouver. TWUC is comprised of roughly 2,000 writers whose books have...
