So today’s exciting news is I have a short story appearing in On Spec Magazine. What is On Spec? On Spec Magazine is a quarterly journal of Fantastic Literature, published by the Copper Pig Society. The magazine has won several Prix Aurora Awards, and has been a Canadian icon in Fantastic Literature since 1989. My short story I wrote a strange and challenging story, “Water Rights”, which explores not only rights to Canada’s waterways,…
A Virtual Workshop Weeknight Writers, a social enterprise dedicated to creating accessible educational resources and events for fiction authors, is presenting a Horror Storycrafting Session, October 8, 2022. I’m pleased to be part of that by way of the panel: Crossroad Blues: Exploring the Boundary Between Life and Death. I’m pleased to share the panel with Barbara A Barnett, Jean M Hodges, and Bethany A Perry. The Full Details Hello writers! Our next virtual conference…
I am Hopeless I know, I know, I truly am hopeless at promoting myself, of keeping people up to date on what I’m doing. But mostly it’s because I’ve convinced myself no one’s listening. Now, that’s not meant to sound like a sucky-baby statement. Just being very pragmatic. It has been my experience with social media of any sort that mostly people aren’t paying attention to all the white noise out there, and my voice…
It’s a great writers’ convention Now in it’s 11th year, When Words Collide is a festival for readers, writers, artists and publishers of commercial and literary fiction, and it starts tomorrow, August 12, through Sunday August 14. Even better, the organizers have wisely chosen to hold the convention online again this year. Why am I telling you about WWC 2022? I’m pleased to be one of four panelists this year who are discussing Baking, Brewing…
LS: You first studied at Polytechnique Montreal, I believe. What was your course of study, and did it relate in any manner to where you find yourself now? ML: I love to learn new things and studied in geography, and later went to the Polytechnique where I met my husband and learned tons of physical concepts. This knowledge underlines most of my fictional constructions. For instance, the root-houses in several of my stories are more…