April 20, 2023 -
In my humble opinion, Jon Cameron is the hub that keeps the Percivious wheel in motion. Head of Proteus, leading […]
March 6, 2023 -
Ophelia is larger than life in the Percivious trilogy. In fact she is our heroine…as least our human heroine. Ophelia […]
November 5, 2022 -
Our Dr. Cooper Delaney is the very first character introduced in the Percivious Trilogy. The very first chapter of the […]
October 25, 2022 -
Next to arrive in Percivious Insomnia (book 1) is Mandolin Grace. A rising star reporter in the field of accumulated […]
October 23, 2022 -
As we launch the final instalment of the Percivious trilogy, Percivious Escape, we find ourselves at a perfect juncture to […]
October 18, 2022 -
The first female introduced in the Percivious Trilogy is Catherine. She is the intelligent, intuitive, consummate mother; and Catherine protects […]
October 1, 2022 -
A cover reveal is always an exciting time….but the third cover in a trilogy is something special. We wanted to […]
May 13, 2022 -
This season of Wonder Women will be dedicated to the wonder women found in the PERCIVIOUS trilogy. With the release […]
April 25, 2022 -
To all of you out there who are reading and especially those of you who have already finished our second […]
March 9, 2022 -
Dame Anna Wintour, known for her signature sunglasses, is our final Wonder Women of fashion post. Last but definitely not […]
February 17, 2022 -
After rumours it might be cancelled, we were over the moon that Paramount Studios announced that they will be releasing […]
January 31, 2022 -
February is an exciting time of year! Fashion weeks are upon us – Copenhagen, New York, London, Milan and last […]
January 14, 2022 -
I watched the documentary Street Gang – How we got to Sesame Street with my oldest son (who is 29) […]
December 28, 2021 -
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” – Marie-Jeanne Rose Bertin Our sources of inspiration for the second […]
December 21, 2021 -
We LOVED the new Dune movie! If you saw it, I can bet you did too. Dune is a classic […]
December 5, 2021 -
Audrey Hepburn’s iconic time defying style and grace positions her at the top of the fashion muse list. She was […]
October 31, 2021 -
We are at an important junction in the Percivious trilogy and it’s the perfect time to focus on the influence […]
October 15, 2021 -
So…I hear that my lovely co-author is starting up a new blog season dedicated to her favourite pastime. Shopping…I mean […]
September 19, 2021 -
Megan Hess is the perfect bridge between our inspirational children’s authors and our next season of Wonder Women – The […]
September 9, 2021 -
What I love about James Mayhew’s Ella Bella Ballerina series is how he introduces it… James Mayhew presents. His intro […]
August 24, 2021 -
Julia Donaldson has written some of my all time favourites, The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man, Superworm, A […]
August 12, 2021 -
I remember clearly, as a child, after a long trip, or even a long day outside playing with friends, the […]
August 7, 2021 -
One and Zero are two of the most AMAZING and impactful children’s books I have ever read, or read to […]
August 1, 2021 -
A lot of us are still reading and more importantly enjoying children’s books. That is because most of them, and […]
July 11, 2021 -
As a child she loved Nancy Drew mysteries. She attended Southern Illinois University and studied Biology and Computer Science. After […]
July 4, 2021 -
My very favourite children’s book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, is still my favourite today. It has […]
June 26, 2021 -
Fancy Nancy spent nearly 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, launching a series now upwards of […]
June 20, 2021 -
Happy Father’s Day to all the other Dads out there! Being a Dad to six has given me the amazing […]
June 13, 2021 -
It’s time for a new series of Wonder Women. This spring/summer our focus will take a lighthearted turn as we […]
June 6, 2021 -
Inspired by one of our favourite “need to laugh” go-tos, Between Two Ferns, today I agreed to be interviewed by […]
May 30, 2021 -
Her net worth is estimated to be around $1 billion U.S. In 2004, Forbes magazine declared her the first person to […]
May 23, 2021 -
When I first read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time I was 12 years old. And it was during […]
May 16, 2021 -
Our list of inspiring female authors would not be complete without the inclusion of fellow Canadian and award winning literary […]
May 9, 2021 -
A number of years ago, over ten years ago, we became involved in a company that from what we could […]
May 2, 2021 -
N.K. Jemisin is one of the most celebrated science fiction writers of our generation. The first author to win the […]
April 25, 2021 -
As we near the finish line of our second novel we find that we are in need of some inspiration. […]
April 18, 2021 -
The Percivious trilogy straddles numerous genres. When we started writing, we were unsure where the story was going to lead. […]
April 11, 2021 -
Having invited ourselves to the party, so to speak, we have been incredibly humbled at the positive attention our debut […]
April 4, 2021 -
“Tom boarded the bus after Dickie. There were no seats, and they were wedged between a skinny, sweating man who […]
March 28, 2021 -
GEDANKENEXPERIMENT, German for “thought experiment” was Albert Einstein’s famous name for imaginings that led to his greatest breakthroughs in physics. […]
March 21, 2021 -
First published in 1959 her literary career spanned nearly 60 years yielding more than twenty novels and over a hundred […]
March 14, 2021 -
Time is our most precious commodity. The longer I live the more this rings true for me. In surgery, the […]
March 6, 2021 -
Octavia E. Butler, the award winning grande dame of science fiction was an extremely shy child. This gives me a […]
February 27, 2021 -
“It’s basically like looking into a crystal ball, seeing what is going to happen to a patient before it happens […]
February 21, 2021 -
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February 14, 2021 -
Happy V-Day to everyone! I mean everyone…love has no boundaries…I see this everyday, especially the love between my small patients […]
February 7, 2021 -
Jane Austen starting her writing career at the age of eleven, perhaps earlier. She wrote poems and stories for her […]
January 30, 2021 -
It was a monumental surprise not only to be reviewed by Publishers Weekly, commonly referred to as the “bible of […]
January 24, 2021 -
For the next chapter of Wonder Women we will be seeking advice from some literary wonder women. They have all […]
January 17, 2021 -
To pursue not one, but two passions is a gift. My work as a Pediatric Urologist is rewarding beyond words; […]
January 10, 2021 -
Our finale is a special one! We finish off our set of local wonder women with Dr. Carolina Fermin-Risso, Pediatric […]
December 7, 2020 -
Cst. Becky Coutu with the Calgary Police Service’s Forensic Crime Unit shares with us her experience behind the badge in […]
November 29, 2020 -
I think we are all nostalgic for what we used to take for granted. For many of us, our most […]
November 15, 2020 -
This week we will hear from Charmaine Ironside, fitness trainer and wellness coach and former Olympic Snowboarder. She is inspirational […]
November 8, 2020 -
One of the questions I get asked regularly is how being a urologist has impacted the novel. The following is […]
October 26, 2020 -
Krista de Silva is a mesmerizing Canadian opera singer, who lucky for me lives just up the hill (literally). Her […]
October 18, 2020 -
It’s never too late to try something new. In the midst of all the uncertainty of Covid, releasing our debut […]
October 5, 2020 -
Dr. Lisa French is a child psychologist with special interests in the assessment and treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism […]
September 27, 2020 -
Twice a month I make the forty-minute drive out to the High River General Hospital to perform surgery. My office […]
September 16, 2020 -
Amanda Perizzolo is a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. She is one of only eleven Sports Medicine Acupuncturists […]
September 6, 2020 -
For the fall we will focus on the Wonder Women surrounding you. The amazing local women that you encounter every […]
August 31, 2020 -
I am a fan of the Netflix series The Crown. I suppose it’s not entirely my fault. My mother woke […]
August 16, 2020 -
The human body has many vestigial remnants of our millions of years of mammalian evolution, the appendix is one such […]
August 3, 2020 -
The impact of sleep deprivation is something we tend to downplay as a society. There have been numerous studies published […]
July 26, 2020 -
Even though I’ve seen Star Wars literally hundreds of times over the last 40 years, I will likely watch it […]
July 18, 2020 -
I agreed to write this one on Cookie’s behalf. So in essence I am his first guest blogger – lucky […]
July 12, 2020 -
Back in the day we all wished we were Whitney Houston. All of us girls anyway. I remember singing along […]
July 5, 2020 -
Someone gifted my 7 year old daughter (6 at the time) with a harmonica at one of the many house […]
June 28, 2020 -
I don’t think it is a coincidence that we have been bringing back the 80s for……ok so longer than the […]
June 21, 2020 -
Once upon a time there lived a middle child who fought hard to win the favour and most importantly the […]
June 21, 2020 -
Long long ago in a kingdom (as it were) far far away there lived an introverted dreamer who would spend […]
