Lizzie began with an eye roll. I was working on a Zack Taggart adventure, my first fiction book featuring a young spy, and one evening we were talking about the book as a family. My daughter, Beth-Rose, was a little put out that I was writing a book with her older brother as the main…
Long before Zack Taggart became a twelve-year-old spy, he was an idea that took shape around a campfire. To understand where he came from, though, you have to go back to bedtime. When my son Zachary was young, we worked our way through the Hardy Boys books together. He loved amateur sleuths, mysteries, and stories…
I’ve wanted to write fiction for as long as I can remember. The trouble was, wanting to write a story and actually having a story worth reading seemed to be two very different things. At one point, as an older teen, I started writing a satirical piece about Quebec separating from Canada and turning itself…