The county where I grew up -- Kings County, Nova Scotia (Canada) -- was kind enough to feature me in their local newspaper this past week! The article posted on their website last week and will be in print this week.

 

It's my first "published author" newspaper feature, and it's heartwarming to keep a connection with the place that I feel most connected to from my childhood.

 

And hopefully, this helps me to track down my grade 5 teacher who had such a strong influence on my love of writing. Fingers crossed!

All right, so choosing "favorite" literary characters is about as easy as deciding between cake and ice cream (I LOVE THEM BOTH OKAY), but for the sake of brevity, I chose five. Just five!

 

Check it out here at Rockin' Book Reviews (clicky!) -- but here's a little tidbit in advance... not all give are human! 

 

Today's guest post over at The Hermit Librarian (is that not a great blog title or what?!?!) asked for me to list my top 5 reads, but honestly... how could I choose?

 

Instead, I chose five debuts I'd read over the past year which were memorable and which fell into different categories. I hope you'll click through and read on, maybe add a few new options to your TBR! 

 

[clicky] Top 5 Reads @ The Hermit Librarian

 

Happy reading!