O Captain! My Captain!
The fourth and final deleted scene about Jonesy, who was banished to the Island of Lost Characters…
Category: Betting Game
Posts about the soccer novel Betting Game, published in 2015 by Orca Books.
Squeezed out
When you’re writing a book, the words don’t always fit. You cut a character or change a scene. It may disappear from the page, but in your head, it’s still there. It’s real. It happened.
Watch the book trailer for Betting Game
What’s inside the teachers’ guide?
Writing the author’s note made me think really hard about the book’s themes and characters. What was the most important part of the story? The takeaway? The message?
Spilling my secrets
The real-life news story that inspired Betting Game, and how an OPP expert in illegal gambling reinvented my bad guy. An interview on the Orca blog. #TuesdayTalk