At the recent World Fantasy convention here in Toronto (ok, Richmond Hill), I was on a panel about the late, much-missed Twilght Zone magazine. I was fortunate enough to make my first professional sale to TZ, after having entered their annual short story contest and finished as a runner-up for my story “The Party Over […]

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By rights, Modesty Blaise should come much later in the influence sequence, but a friend mentioned this series the other day, which sent me back to reread the first two. I think the second of the series (Sabre-Tooth) made it’s way into our house in one of the boxes of books that my Dad brought […]

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My website was hacked last weekend. Why anyone would hack it is beyond me, but there you go. Thanks to Deane for the quick restore. “Understanding WordPress and Social media 101” is going on my “things to do” list now.

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No one, even at their most charitable, would call me technologically adept. My brother, his friend (and my future husband, though we didn’t know it at the time) and I were once discussing an article that had posited that the world would be divided into techno-lords and techno-peasants. Richard claimed techno-lord status, I was clearly […]

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I can’t count the number of times I’ve read Nicolas Stuart Gray’s Mainly in Moonlight. I know that I took it out of the North York Public Library Children’s Section so many times the librarians must have wondered why my parents didn’t just buy me a copy. (Actually, I’m not sure why either. My father […]

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One of my earliest reading obsessions – and on that has a had an ongoing influence on my writing – is fairy tales. My family had two collections that contained the classic stories, along with some more obscure tales, and while I can’t remember the titles, I can still see the illustrations clearly. I’m still […]

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I’ll be doing my first reading in two years on August 8th as part of the ChiZine reading series. If you’re in Toronto, come by and catch Carolyn Clink, Tanya Huff, Kari Maaren and me do our thing at: The Augusta House, 152A Augusta Avenue, Toronto, ON 8:00 start Now I just have to decide […]

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I was thinking about the early influences that have informed my reading and writing choices and shaped the kind of art I love so I’ll be posting on that topic over the next while. My official bio always said “Nancy blames her love of horror on the first horror story she read – “The Tale […]

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That sums up my “career” as a visual artist. While I like art, own a fair bit of it and am known to swoon over lovely shot composition in films, I’m also the person who passed art in public school only because I handed in all my assignments. My creative activities have always been literary, […]

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Welcome to my new blog-friendly site! After procrastinating for far too long, I’ve finally had my site updated into a format I can actually use. Thanks to Deane Hughes and Gillian Holmes for the design and execution. So what’s new? – Both Discovering Japan and Chrysanthemum Shadows are now available in e-book format (see Where […]

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