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The Fairest of Them All

10/24/2025

Craft fairs and book fairs, that is! I'll be busy this month and the next at a number of fairs where I'll be out and about the Edmonton area, selling books and crafts. I'm a big proponent of buy local, sell local, so please stop by and say hi, browse around, and get your Christmas shopping done early. Hope to see you there!

Here's where I'll be:

Saturday, October 25th: Fall Bazaar at the St. Charles Parrish, located at 17511 112 Street in Edmonton. There will be vendors, a raffle, and great food. FREE and open 10am-3pm.

Saturday, November 1st: Words in the Park: Author Fair & Book Sale at the Sherwood Park Community Centre AGORA, located at 401 Festival Lane in Sherwood Park. Over 50 authors will be a part of this event! FREE and open 10am-4pm.

Saturday, November 29th: The Gold Bar Craft Sale at the Gold Bar Community Hall, located at 4620 105 Avenue NW in Edmonton. It brings the talents of local wood workers, artists, jewelry makers, glass workers and more. FREE and open 10am-3pm.

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Pubs and Podcasts and Puppies, oh my!

10/21/2025

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Photo by Rebecca Scholz

Okay, so there aren't any puppies - not really. Just the puppy in the picture above.

BUT there are plenty of podcasts and several publications. So, I'll start out with the pubs.

To get you in the Halloween mood, check out the new anthology Ghost to Ghost to Ghost, which is available for order HERE. It's filled with a whole mishmash of writers from all across Canada, and includes my short story "A Dream Deferred."

If you don't recognize the title of my piece, it's referring to a poem of the same title by Langston Hughes, who is one of my favorite poets. You can listen to Hughes read his poem aloud HERE.

My story "Out in the Open" was also honorable mention in the July fiction contest at Off Topic Publishing and recently published. Free to read online!

Next up on the agenda are podcasts galore. I've been Zooming around and chatting with a number of fabulous people, and I'd like to give a shoutout to several of them here.

First off, I'm so excited to be speaking with Miss Liz on her Teatime podcast today! If you'd like to tune in, please check out THIS LINK at 3pm EST. We'll be talking about inspiration and the "human heart of storytelling" when it comes to creativity.

Next up is Tilting at Windmills, where I had a great chat with the wonderful Chrys and Benjamin Gorman. We talked a bit about writing, but more about the social and political worlds we inhabit and how that affects creativity and how we live our lives. All three of us are US expats living abroad, so we had some similar - and also some unique - takes on what that means to each of us.

Last but not least for this roundup of recent shows is a great chat I had with Kino Isaac recently on his podcast called "Author Versus AI (Will AI replace me?)"

We had a lot of fun talking about AI and creativity, and we traveled down some rabbit holes about technology (yes, your phone is listening to you!).

So, I've been busy talking with a lot of fabulous folks. Hope you enjoy listening!

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Up to Speed - CBC Radio TODAY

10/14/2025

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I'm excited to speak with Faith Fundal today on their Up to Speed radio show on CBC Manitoba. I'll be on the air at about 4:20pm MT (5:30pm Central). If you live in the area, that would be the radio station 89.3 FM. If aren't from around there, you can listen to the livestream HERE.

Funny story - my aunt, who lives in Winnipeg, usually listens to Up to Speed regularly. However, she's right now visiting me in Gibbons because of the Thanksgiving holidays. She joked, "I had to come all the way to Alberta to hear my niece on the radio!"

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The Creativity Show - Podcast TODAY

10/13/2025

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If you're looking for something fun to listen to over the long weekend, look no further than Radio Red's live podcast The Creativity Show. I'll be a guest on Monday, October 13th, and chatting with a panel of authors that includes James L Hill and JM Shaw. Tune in at 5pm EST and see where the conversation takes us!

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The Fairest of Them All

Pubs and Podcasts and Puppies, oh my!

Up to Speed - CBC Radio TODAY

The Creativity Show - Podcast TODAY

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