Trivia

Here's where you'll find information you might not be interested in.

But I want to include it, anyway.

Through my company LPwordsolutions, I support and sponsors a number of activities and organizations, including - The Surrey International Writers' Conference (contest sponsor and judge), Surrey Public Library's Young Adult Writing Contest (sponsor).

10% the author royalties of each of my kids' books go to non profit organizations:

I also donate books, workshops and author presentations to children's literacy-based organizations for silent auctions, etc. Contact me for more information.

In 2008, I received a Canada Council grant to write the companion book to Meeting Miss 405.

I ran away from boarding school in my housecoat when I was nine.

I love mechanical pencils, Yellow Labs, red licorice, the Sinai Peninsula and riding my bike along Vancouver's waterfront.

My daughter Holly was not born at Christmas.

I am a member of: Children's Writers & Illustrators of BC (CWILL), The Writers' Union of Canada, The Canadian Authors' Association, The Children's Literature Roundtable (Vancouver), the Canadian Children's Book Centre, and The Association of Fundraising Professionals.

I am fascinated by sea horses. Can they really be real?

The most useful writing books I've ever used are Manuscript Makeover by Elizabeth Lyon and Imaginative Writing by Janet Burroway.

I'll do almost anything for chocolate.