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DramAntics and other stuff

4/18/2014

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So you may have noticed that the story from the Scrawl-A-Thon was still posted. I've decided to keep that up for now. Firstly, because I am just too darn busy to actually take it down and two because I was running a great program called DramAntics. (I'll post pictures soon).
I experienced a wonderful week with some amazing kids writing and producing a play of their own design. It's a ton of work. I weave their words into a working script in just one night - usually ending at three in the morning. I make cast shirts, the poster and playbill, and I help with set and costume if things are running behind. It's all worth it though. The kids get so much self esteem and happiness from this program, I don't mind all the effort I have to put in to make it happen. My cohort, MJ Uszy, feels the same way, and has about the same amount of sleepless nights.
Right now, I'm gearing up for the book launch of Stupid. Or, I guess, my Stupid book launch. I really should have rethought that title. Some things are still up in the air but the date and time are finally nailed down - below are the details. I hope to see some of you there.
Until next time. . . 

YOU are all invited to my book launch event for my newest book, Stupid!
Monday, April 28 from 6-8 pm at Breathe Parkour (#8 - 401 33rd Street NE. about a 10 min walk from the Marlborough C-Train station) 
Details are still up in the air but this was the plan originally:

1. Bethan McBreen - poem & video - "Century Gardens" 
2. Steve Nagy / Matt Turner / Frankie Skripal / Riley Hilton - reading / story / film - Parkour in North Korea - Breathe Parkour Magazine Issue 3 "Parkour Without Borders"
3. Kim Firmston - Reading & Performance - "Stupid"

PK Magazine will be for sale. 
Stupid will be for sale for $10.00 (as well as the rest of my books).

And if you want to parkour before or after the show, it's just $15.00 plus tax to go and play in the gym (I think there may be a DJ afterwards too).

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Reading

11/2/2013

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I have been so busy with my writing and teaching careers for the past three or so years that reading has taken a back seat. It used to be when my daughter was younger, that summers spent "supervising" her in the back yard meant that I could get in a few chapters of a novel, or a comic. Now, with her needing space more than anything, I have had made very little time to read, preferring to "get some work done" during the pause between parenting.
This turns out to be a bad thing. Not only for the obvious reasons that I have lost a pleasant pastime but also that my own writing, in the absence of new input, has stagnated. It turns out that in order to improve my own writing I must read works of others. Indeed, for a while I was feeling quite hopeless at how my abilities seemed to be standing still when not that long before they had been growing exponentially.  I didn't equate the lack of time spent reading to the lack of my own growth until I was forced by way of becoming Writer in Residence for Open Book Toronto, to read a great number of locally produced books in order to either recommend them or not. Reading pushed away the fuzz that came of burying my self exclusively in my own words and reinvigorated me.
So now I am determined to inhale books. I must, for the sake of my own career, read. It's not a bad vitamin to take. I'm quite pleased with the therapy. I've already reached chapter two in The Great Gatsby just yesterday. I hear it is wonderfully written. So far I am smitten.
So lesson learned. Read to write better. Got it. 
Now, back to my book! 
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New Adventures

5/2/2013

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So Boiled Cat is launched! What a fun night. MJ Diva and Thrashadactyl rocked it out. I read. Books were signed. And I got to connect with people I haven't seen in a long, long time. (That's what happens when you lock yourself away to write)!
Now I'm on to new adventures. I'm doing art for the Boiled Cat book trailer. The STICK IT TO THEM Boiled Cat sticker contest is launched - go to the Boiled Cat website for info on that (www.boiledcat.com). Stickers are free so contact me to get some. I'm putting together classes for the THREE camps I'm teaching at this summer. I've also been invited to be a panelist for the When Words Collide conference in August. In November I'll be the Writer in Residence for Open Book Toronto. And during all this I've pitched a new book to Lorimer SideStreets called Stupid. If that makes it through all the hoops, I'll be working on a new book soon. I also plan on getting How To Be A Super Villain sold as soon as possible and finding an agent for February. The amount of work I have to do is endless, however I look forward to all of it. I hope you'll all stick with me on my adventures. Who knows where this road will take me but it looks like fun!
Oh, yeah, one more thing - there's new pictures on the corkboard and, as usual, they all link somewhere. Have fun with them!

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Want your kid to read this Christmas?

11/22/2012

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Have a non-reader on your Christmas list? Not a problem. Lorimer SideStreets has a whole list of books for that kid who has trouble reading, doesn't like reading, or just doesn't have the time. These short books with great stories and low vocabulary make reading easy and fun.
I have published three books through them - Schizo, Hook Up, and coming out this spring - Touch. Also coming out this spring Boiled Cat - a self published punk rock book with low vocabulary and a great interactive website. 
Books, they could be the solution you were looking for.
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