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Cora-spondence
October 1st, 2008
It’s been a long time!
Thanks to Mrs. Cameron, Sugar and
Linley at M.E. Lazerte High School in Edmonton my Web Page is getting
a face lift.
I suppose my biggest news so far
this year is the launch of my latest book with Coteau Books. Ghost
Voyages IV: Cartier and Champlain came out in the Spring and there
were launches at Audrey’s Books in Edmonton, Monkeyshines
Bookstore in Calgary, Downtown Books in Owen Sound and an exciting
signing and presentation at Book Expo in Toronto.
A new paperback edition of Julie
in Japanese will be part of Shogakukan’s new Fantasy line.
They have previously published both Julie and Julie’s Secret
in hardcover with marvelous illustrations
This October as well as visiting
M.E. Lazerte High School, I’ll be meeting students at Caernarvon
School in Edmonton, as well as enjoying a session with Mr. William’s
class at Richard Secord School where they’ve been reading
The Doll .
After Thanksgiving I’m going
to Southern Alberta to the Hugh Sutherland School in Cardston and
then over to Foremost School to talk to the students there.
My big news is that in November
I’ll be touring Prince Edward Island for Young Canada Book
Week. It’s the only province in Canada I haven’t toured
so I’m very excited to meet the students in Charlottetown,
Summerside, Georgetown, Borden-Carleton and St. Peter’s Bay
area. I hear that Ms. Davis’ class at Amherst Cole School
have already been busy writing their own rhymes from Out on the
Prairie. I’m looking forward to hearing them!
What am I writing these days? Just putting the finishing touches
on a biography of Victoria Callihoo, an amazing Metis lady who lived
in this part of Alberta from 1861 to 1966. Yes, that’s right!
She was 105 years old. As a child she went on buffalo hunts and
camped with her family in a tepee where the MacDonald Hotel now
stands. To celebrate her 100th birthday she danced a Red River jig.
My family tells me that I was pretty good at dancing the jig when
I was little but don’t ask me to do it now – and I’m
a long way from being one hundred years old! It was Victoria’s
description of her buffalo hunt that helped me when I was writing
my first Our Canadian Girl - Angelique: The Buffalo Hunt,
Next Spring watch for the third
in The Spy Who Wasn’t There series: Chaos in China to be published
by Coteau Books. We’ll be adding some pictures of me and the
Terra Cotta Warriors taken when I was in Xi’an doing my research
for that book.
In the meantime – Happy Reading!
Cora
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