Hi!
Long time no blog! I'm writing from lovely Newmarket in Ontario where I am visiting schools during the week before the Silver Birch Award (Jo's Triumph is a finalist!!! how cool is that?). During the day I chat with school kids in the area - by evening I pull out my notebook and work away at several projects.

What's on the go at the moment? Well, the update on Battle for Carnillo is that it should be here... any second now - all is done, cool illustrations completed (thanks J.A.Z.!), map inserted, cover finished... just waiting for books to arrive from the printer. They'd better get here (well, to Victoria) before I head off to Book Expo next week or I will have no advance copies to hand out when the book is officially sent forth into the wide, wide world...

Working on the new book in the Tarragon Island series as well as a couple of speeches and talks I have to give in the next few weeks... Occasionally, I give myself a break and let myself out of my self-imposed working exile to find an Internet terminal (this one is very nice - it's at the Newmarket Public Library)...

Alas, the downside of public terminals is that they are usually associated with a time limit... Such is the case with this one, so I must be quick. I promise not to wait so long between letters... after all, there is the new horse to talk about (Bony Tony) and the barn project, and various nifty trips... and... and...

All that will have to wait...
Cheers,
Nikki