People ask me how much of my day-to-day life is included in my books. Despite writing about talking bats, ghosts, and witches, I end up incorporating a shocking amount of facts and real events. The following is a classic example. …
I’m incredibly fortunate to live five minutes away from a beautiful, urban forest covering over a thousand hectares. Karura Forest was saved from the chainsaw and cement trucks by Wangarĩ Maathai, a Kenyan activist and the first African woman to …
Editing is an important part of the creative process. At the risk of overly simplifying the writing process, there are three basic stages: 1) Write it. 2) Write what you mean. 3) Write it well. The ‘write it’ is the …
Remember a while back I told you how my daughter and I made the innocent decision to clean and organize one (and only one) kitchen drawer? And how that led to a house-shaking, reorganization project? No drawer, closet or room …
Some creature has moved into our attic. We’re not sure what it is, although we have a few theories. It’s definitely not a rat — it’s way too big for that. My daughter’s betting it’s an alien, but we should be so …
