Category Archives: awards
Seeing the Forest of Reading for the Trees
I’ve been seeing a lot of Ontario, friends! My second book in the Dead Kid Detective Agency series, Dial M for Morna, has been nominated for the Silver Birch Fiction Award, part of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading Awards. The Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest reading program, with awards geared toward readers [...]
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Acclaim by Design
Though I work in book publishing primarily as a publicist (for esteemed literary press Coach House Books), this year’s end had resulted in some probably undeserved kudos for my book design efforts.
I worked with talented poet Jon Paul Fiorentino to design the cover of his new, pedagogically minded collection, Needs Improvement. The report card swipe [...]
Nominated for a Silver Birch Award!!!
So, October 15 was a very good day. In a spot of amazing news, The Dead Kid Detective Agency was announced as a nominee for the Silver Birch Award, one of the biggest awards in the world of Canadian Book Publishing!
For the uninitiated, the Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest recreational reading program, made up [...]
A Place in the Sunburst!
Incredible (and I mean that in the literal sense of ‘not believing it) news, friends! The Dead Kid Detective Agency has been shortlisted for the Sunburst Award in the category of young adult fiction!
The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award recognizing writing in two categories: adult and [...]
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Tagged catherine austen, jamieson findlay, moira young, phyllis gotlieb, r.j. anderson, sunburst award, the hives
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