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Reviewing Archie on His 75th Birthday

As some of you may know, among my many pursuits is the Archie Comics podcast I produce with my friend and co-host Lucy Cappiello, Radio Free Riverdale. As two of Canada’s most prominent (or only) Archie Comics podcasters, we were asked to review the Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary Bash, an anthology published in [...]

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Loyalist To A Fault reviewed at the National Post

The National Post – and more accurately, the whip-smart children’s book reviewer, Anna Fitzpatrick – reviewed the third Dead Kid Detetctive Agency book, Loyalist To A Fault, on October 13, but it only appeared online on the National Post site last week. It’s a really nice review, which is high praise because I really feel [...]

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Talking ’bout John Bellairs in The Post

The National Post runs a semi-regular column called ‘Old Book, New Author,’ in which a new author (in this case, I) talk about an older book that has influenced his or her work. On January 19, 2012, I wrote an installment about one of the greats of kids’ mystery novels (and frequent Edward Gorey collaborator) [...]

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Reviewed in the National Post!

The weekend of December 17, 2011, the National Post featured a bunch of review of new kids’ and YA books, all reviewed by their intended readership. The Books section featured reviews of This Dark Endeavour, Tilt and Shatter Me reviewed by twelve-, thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds. Among them, a very nice review of The Dead [...]

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