Author of If Only You Knew
Winner of Best Romance Novel, Best Youth Novel
& the prestigious Grace Irwin Award for Best Book of 2009
Welcome!
Welcome to my Book Website and thanks for dropping by.
Since If Only You Knew came out in 2009, I've been busy creating some new romantic suspense - full of killers, and kidnappings, and falling in love with the wrong person and the worst possible time. It's been so much fun, and I'm looking forward to having a new book to announce soon.
In the meantime, feel free to look around. Here you'll find some book reviews for If Only You Knew, along with an excerpt, my calendar, and some older blogs on writing.
Also, feel free to check out SpiritualMisfit.com - my more recent blog about the places where the mess of life and faith collide.
Thanks again for visiting! Please leave a note and let me know you were here.
Mags
Some old favorites from my rarely updated novel-writing blog:
Confessions of an Occasional Failure...
Maybe you need to have had your heart broken. Maybe you need to have your dreams crushed. Maybe you need to have been angry, and tired, and helpless, and guilty, and lost, before you have anything worth writing about.
Fighting with myself...
The “push and pull” between the “bitter atheist” (Sam) and the “impatient man of faith” (Nate) was born out of an argument. A fight. A bitter, angry, no holds barred battle, one Sunday morning at my church in
Toronto. That took place inside my own heart.
Yes, I am naturally a disaster...
The wonderful thing about becoming a writer is that you can suddenly take all those horribly embarrassing moments from your past that you wished you’d never, ever lived through, and turn them into fiction.
Everyone’s life is ugly – Lyf told me – it’s just that few people are open about that ugliness. People think acting means putting on a mask – pretending you are something you are not. But in reality it’s taking off masks. Showing people some of the brokenness inside you. It’s true for writing too...