Silver Birch
Q&A with Peggy Dymond Leavey, author of Growing Up Ivy
Tell us about your book.
Growing Up Ivy is historical fiction for YA readers, set in Toronto and rural Ontario during the Great Depression. Twelve-year-old Ivy Chalmers is sent to live in the town of Larkin with her grandmother when the girl’s actress mother abandons her in order to try her luck on the stage in [...]
One Year Anniversary!
As I was sitting, trying to think about what I was going to blog about today, I looked at the calendar and realised that as of this week, I’ve been working at Dundurn for a year!
The first day that I started seems so long ago; yet, at the same time, the past 3 months have [...]
Life in a Vacuum
Sometimes we exist in a vacuum. By that I mean that often we have books that we get very excited about, for instance the upcoming Something Remains and Pilgrim in the Palace of Words, but despite our sales projections and how hard we work on the publicity campaign the public’s reaction to said books are [...]
