True North Blog Tour features guest post by Toronto author LE Sterling, who talks about being true to yourself as a writer

I am the final stop in the L.E. Sterling True North blog tour, created by Raincoast Books, promoting the second book in True Born, an urban fantasy trilogy, and featuring a guest post with Toronto author LE Sterling. I wish I...

A realistic look at teen pregnancy – and the choices kids make – in Saying Good-bye to London

As a teen, I thought if I ever got pregnant, I would do the “right” thing and give up the baby so she could have the best life possible. Now that I have had a child, I am not sure...

Pandora, The Everywhere Bear, Under the Umbrella and other beautiful picture books reviewed at Book Time

I read so many fabulous and absolutely beautiful picture books this month. Pandora by Victoria Turnbull ($23.99, Raincoast Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is so exceptionally beautiful. As soon as I pulled it out of the box of books from Raincoast,...

DK’s Woodland and Forest is a perfect book to take when exploring nature this Earth Day and always

For a little book, DK's Woodland and Forest ($11.99) is packed full of information. From explaining what a forest is and where they can be found (they cover about a third of the Earth's surface, and no two forests are...

DK Books makes it easy to learn What’s Really Happening to Our Planet just in time for Earth Day

Just in time for Earth Day Saturday, April 22, DK Books asks What's Really Happening To Our Planet? and offers The Facts Simply Explained ($19.95). I found the book by Tony Juniper quite depressing, and likely shouldn't have read it...

Young adult blog tour coming to Book Time: True North author L.E. Sterling to guest blog April 28

I was honoured when Raincoast Books asked me if I wanted to participate in a blog tour to promote Toronto resident's L.E. Sterling's latest book True North, the sequel in the planned True Blood trilogy. Sterling's guest blog post will...

Cindy Anstey talks Regency period, travel, the Swoon Reads community, writing and Duels & Deceptions

Nova Scotia author Cindy Anstey's latest book Duels & Deceptions ($15.99, Raincoast Books, Swoon Reads) came out earlier this month, and I had the pleasure of asking the author a number of questions about her characters, her writing process and...

What are you going to read during April’s #readingwithoutwalls challenge by comic book author Gene Luen Yang?

Kwame Alexander's Booked, about a soccer-playing teen written in a variety of poetry styles or The Playbook, a book of quotes and rules to live by; Jeff Garvin's Symptoms of Being Human, a chapter book about Reilly, who is gender...

Such Small Hands by Spanish author Andres Barba offers a bizarre look at grief, loss and a desire for acceptance

Such Small Hands might be one of the most bizarre books I have read this year. The reviews on the back of this book by Spanish writer Andres Barba ($22.95, Publishers Group Canada , Transit Books) call it a masterpiece and...