The idea to go public with work you have created is an interesting dilemma. No matter what you have been anguishing over, be it a series of paintings, a screenplay, a picture book, making art is usually a solitary endeavour. Private. You are in your own world and, for...
I still buy picture books, occasionally for the young people in my life, but more likely for myself. Some I choose for the illustrations. They can be exquisite, moveable art galleries. Some I choose for, what I think, is the perfect balance of words and images. The...
….that leap off the shelf and into your hands. Why do you pick one book over another. Could be the author. Could be the cover design. Or it could be the title. It is so difficult to choose a perfect title for a book. You want it to reflect the content and not...
I find it hard to stick with a book that centres around a character I dislike, cannot relate to or don’t care about. These characters, either protagonist or evil villain, don’t have to be perfect (preferably not) but they have to have desires and...
When I am choosing a book to read, I like to sample the first couple of pages to get a feel for how the author uses language, the point of view, the voice, that kind of thing. In the days I lived in Halifax, I would sit myself down in the back room of Woozles...
