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When did you first fall in love with romance as a genre? The first time I read Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss in the late 1970s. Who are some of your authorly inspirations? Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, Judith McNaught, and so many more! Fill in the blank...

1:00 PM Neighborhood coffee or tea shop. My writing day begins when I make it to one of the local coffee shops I can walk to from home. Some days that is later than others, but the ideal time is after the lunch crowd has come and...

5:00 am—Wakeup: unless the cats let me sleep later. Coffee comes first (in my favorite What Deadline? mug) and then right to the FitDesk (my stationary bike with a desk attached) for what is meant to be a quick check of the web but never ends up...

Reading opens our minds to new experiences; through books we take trips to foreign lands, other planets, and other times, all via the magic of prose. We wondered if books are a way to get to know the real world, too. We asked Malcolm Neil, our Director of...

I no longer work in television. My life as a writer is much quieter now. Every morning, I get the kids off to school, kick my husband out the door to work, and settle in at my desk for two hours of morning writing, always with coffee...

If you’re in search of the next best nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, can’t-sleep-at-night crime story to read, we have a few to propose. The Crime Writers of Canada announced the shortlist for its 2017 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, which Kobo joined this year as the...

When Tilda Shalof first began collecting bits of plastic from the hospital, she knew they would one day become part of a bigger story. The only question was: how? Shalof, a veteran ICU nurse, reveals what it is really like to work behind the closed hospital curtains...

Is there any phrase in the English language more lovely than “Paris in the springtime”? The answer is no. But merely being in Paris is not enough for some – we want to BE Paris, to live like a Parisian, to have Paris running through our veins every...

You know those people who could win the Olympic gold medal for speed-reading? The ones who seem to glance at their textbooks in school and still get an A? I’m definitely not one of them, and never have been. I’m the type to savour books, lingering over...

Morning: I’ve got to admit it, the last divine chew and swallow of the peanut butter muffin brings about several minutes of reflective sadness, the taste buds sort of wilt, and I swear to you, the characters must be sad too because they stop in their tracks...