OCULUM Events Coming up! OLA Forest Friday and OLA SuperConference

OCULUM is out and about this month!
I'll be signing books and talking about the book at a few separate events, hope you can come and join me...

1. OLA FOREST FRIDAY Presentation, January 24/2020
11:00 - 11:45 a.m.

This is a 45-minute Virtual Author Visit on the web, where I'll be discussing OCULUM. Anyone registered for the OLA Forest of Reading can join in free.

Further Information: Forest Friday Jan. 24/2020


2. OLA SuperConference, Author Signings and Presentation

If you're going to the SuperConference in Toronto (Jan 29-31), I'll be there both days, drop by and say hi, plus grab some books.
Find me here:

1) Thursday, January 30, 3:00 pm. Author Signing, Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, Exhibitors Hall, Dundurn Booth. I'll be signing and giving away my latest book in the Weird Stories Gone Wrong series!

2) Friday, January 31, 9:30 a.m. Author Signing, OCULUM, OBP Pavilion

3) Friday, January 31, 10:45-11:45 a.m., 10 minute presentation on OCULUM, CANSCAIP stage, exhibitor's hall.

Here is the complete author signing schedule, come out for your favourite Canadian writers: OLA Author Schedule 2020

Busy month! Come and meet some authors, hear about their life's work, and get inspired to read (or write) some great books. Enjoy!

Forest Fridays was so much fun, thanks everyone!

Thanks to Librarian Karen Upper for the image

Forest Fridays was really fun! Thank you to the Ontario Library Association, for inviting me to talk to kids across Ontario and Canada today.

We had dozens of schools, hundreds of kids, teachers and librarians joining in to listen and ask great questions.

I talked about being a writer, and about my Silver Birch Express nominated title, Myles and the Monster Outside.

The questions were all fantastic, but here are my three favourites:

1. From a student: I'm a writer too. What advice can you give me? A: Believe in yourself, write the stories you are most passionate about, don't let anyone tell you you can't be a writer, and keep writing!

2. From a teacher: What was it about Charlotte's Web that inspired you to be a writer at age nine?
A: It was the first time that a book made me feel something, the first time I realized that books are powerful.

3. From a school: do you like reading horror stories?
A: Yes, I like reading some horror writers. I like Stephen King, Anne Rice, Kelley Armstrong, but I don't like watching horror movies!

As always, a real honour to be a Forest of Reading nominee and have the privilege to talk to young readers. Keep reading, everyone!

Here's the Myles and the Monster Outside BookTrailer, enjoy!
Here's the schedule for the rest of the Forest Fridays author presentations. All you need to do is register, and enjoy.

Join me for Forest Fridays on March 24th!

Ontario Library Association FOREST FRIDAYS are NEW this year, join us!

I hope you'll join me this Friday, March 24th, at 11:45, for a FREE Cross Canada internet presentation. All you need to do is register and log on.

Here's the info: Forest Fridays, Philippa Dowding

I'll be talking about my Silver Birch Express nominated title, Myles and the Monster Outside (book 2 in the Weird Stories Gone Wrong series), plus I'll answer questions from across the country.

Come one, come all!

I see you, Myles ...

More about The Forest of Reading here.
More about Myles and the Monster Outside.
Myles and the Monster Outside BOOK TRAILER