Welcome to my new digital home.
Please join me,
and allow me to join you,
in this endless intrigue we call
writing.

I’m a published writer with over 20 years’ experience as a writing teacher, editor and manuscript consultant.

My latest book, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing is a best-seller. Please be my guest and read excerpts.

Work with me! My summer schedule includes a June Writing Retreat and other events.

The popular Vancouver Manuscript Intensive (VMI) returns in a Petite version in fall 2012. Past participants have gone on to publish books and win awards.

VMI is a great opportunity to work in person with an established author to refine the first twenty-five pages of a manuscript and gain direction as a writer. (Application deadline July 25, 2012.)

The full five-month VMI  returns in January 2013.