by Jocelyn | Jun 2, 2012 | News & Events
My launch for How to Tend a Grave last week was a wonderful event! I’m happy to report that total nakedness didn’t happen, and I didn’t get crumbs on my dress either (more later). Thanks so much to everyone who came and made it such a success, and to...
by Jocelyn | May 22, 2012 | News & Events, Reading & Writing
At the launch of Lena Coakley’s Witchlanders in Toronto, with L.M. FalconeI love going to book launches. Other people’s book launches, that is. There’s so much to celebrate when a new book is released. I know firsthand how much work went into my friends’ books...
by Jocelyn | May 15, 2012 | Reading & Writing
For my new YA novel, I had the good fortune of working with the amazing Anita Daher. Not only is she the associate teen books editor at Great Plains Publications, but she has written five middle grade and two YA novels, which have been finalists for many awards....
by Jocelyn | May 2, 2012 | Reading & Writing
How to Tend a Grave, published by Great Plains Teen Fiction, is available now. I’m so excited to share an excerpt with you here. Hope you enjoy it! “Liam slumps down onto the sorry pile of dirt that covers his mom’s grave. It’s been days since he cried and...
by Jocelyn | Apr 13, 2012 | News & Events, Reading & Writing
In honour of national poetry month, check out the April 13 post on Sylvia Vardel’s Poetry for Children blog. It features an interview with Carol-Ann Hoyte and Heidi Bee Roemer, co-editors of the forthcoming children’s poetry collection And the Crowd Goes...
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