About Me
I’m originally from northern Manitoba in Canada and escaped as soon as I graduated high school. I now live in southern Ontario: less cold, less snow, less winter—can you see why I moved?—and in the summer, less mosquitoes. However, I soon began to travel back as often as I could. I missed the brilliant and long lasting sunsets over the lake in the summer, the call of the loon, the dancing northern lights, and the clear, star-filled sky, so luminous it would light my way home at night. And I missed the landscape, filled with rocky outcroppings of the Canadian Shield, lakes so clean I could dip my cup while paddling, and forests untouched yet by pulp and paper clearances—and so few people that everyone said hello whether they knew you or not.
I haven’t always been a writer, but I’ve always been a reader. Of almost anything. I particularly love a story that has an anthropological or sociological bent. It is no wonder that my writing tends to begin with research and drift towards the historical. But I also love the magic of fairy tales, the creativity of science fiction, the imaginative worlds of fantasy and the emotional tug of romance. Writing YA allows me to combine all of it into one.