A Pefect Gentle Knight has been nominated for the Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Award's 2008 Snow Willow Award. It has also been long-listed for the Canadian Library Association's Book-of-the-Year for Children Award.

The next Awake and Dreaming tour of the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria is at 2pm on Sunday, April 20. Meet in front of the Starbucks in the Fairfield plaza for tickets.

I will be speaking to prospective writers at the Canadian Authors' Association CanWrite! national conference on July 4. See canauthorsalberta.ca/CanWrite for details.

I will be speaking to prospective writers at CANSCAIP's Packaging Your Imagination Conference on November 1 at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Information will be available soon at canscaip.org.

I will be speaking at Milton's Book Festival for Children on November 2. See bookfestival.mpl.on.ca for details.