Sheryl McFarlane

I’m excited to be able to share the trailer for my new e book,  Moonsnail Song.  It’s published and produced by Crow Cottage Publishing. The book is available through iTunes and Kobo.

Weddings are wonderful, but also exhausting.  We were lucky…the outdoor ceremony (at Beacon Hill Park) slipped between the morning and afternoon fog banks, and the rain held off until the next day.  My daughter and my new son-in-law were a stunning couple, and their adorable baby, little B, was a gem throughout.  So many wonderful family and friends helped to make it all happen, including my other two lovely girls who were bridesmaids.  I was especially blessed to have my husband’s sister with us for a week, and of course, John was there in spirit.

As promised, here are a few pictures.

Walking Cloe down the aisleThe ceremony

Matt & Cloe

my girls

The girls in our family including baby B

John’s sister Sheila with baby B

the hall

one of many bins of flowers

Love is in our families

a word of advice to the newlyweds

yummy wedding favors
made by Ali & I

And now I suppose I’d better start working on rewriting the novel I promised my agent I’d have ready…Sorry Harry, I will try to catch up 🙂

Just wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be on a bit of a blogger hiatus while I help my daughter get ready for her wedding next week.

That includes everything from fluffing giant yellow and blue pompoms, to wrapping cutlery in napkins tied with twine and rosemary, babysitting my grand daughter while she attend her bachelorette party…lucky me :)…, making multiple pies because she doesn’t want a cake, and doing the wedding bouquets, boutonnières, corsages and flower arrangements for the tables. Since her dad passed away when she was young, it will also mean walking her down the isle and giving the traditional father of the bride speech, which I’ve written but will tweak obsessively until the day of.  Getting through the speech without tears will be a serious challenge.  You poor dads out there. I totally sympathize.

My husband and I did not have a big wedding when we married. Neither did most of our friends. This return to tradition has some advantages though. I particularly appreciate how it brings people together.  Gathering friends and family together just doesn’t happen often enough these days.  And of course, it’s good to have a real opportunity to welcome a whole new family into ours.

It will be fun, but emotional, not to mention hectic.  I’ll update  you about the happy event when I return…probably obsessively, so I’ll ask for forgiveness in advance. 😉

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada’s public broadcasting network) loves to engage their listeners, viewers and internet followers. One of the ways they do that is through contests.  Yep, CBC loves contests and so do we Canadians; political trivia contests, photo contests, finish the story contests, musical talent contests, and even song of the summer contests.

So, Canada’s Most Iconic Book Cover contest wasn’t exactly a surprise.  For the last few weeks, Canadians have been voting.  You might expect that Yani Martel’s Life of Pi or one of Margaret Atwood’s titles to be the most well know, but it was a kid’s book that took home the prize.  Well, there wasn’t exactly a prize, but still… The winning book cover of Canada’s Most Iconic Book Cover is Love You Forever by Robert Munch, illustrated bySheila McGraw.  Published by Firefly Books, Love You Forever has sold over 22 million copies in North America alone! What’s equally awesome is that another kid’s book, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, was the runner up.

Hurray Canadian Kids Books!

I’m just hoping that the press release was sent to publishers and to Canadian funding agencies. 🙂