Young readers in Alberta and Manitoba are enjoying great Canadian books and voting on their favourites this spring, 2023. THANK YOU to both the Rocky Mountain Book Awards (RMBA) in Alberta and the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards (MYRCA) for including FIREFLY on their curated shortlists for readers in grades 6-8.

Here is the list for the RMBA selected books: https://rmba.info/category/nominees/2...

Here is the MYRCA list: http://www.myrca.ca/2023-northern-lig...

As a lovely addition to the MYRCA excitement, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival is also highlighting the selected books and authors with additional info, here is my page but go and look around, there are wonderful writers here (this site will be dismantled at the end of Feb. 2023): https://thinairkids.ca/user/534/

If you want to know what book I hid from my family as a child, or see images of Thunder Thighs costumes (the costume shop which inspired The Corseted Lady in FIREFLY), go see!

Canadian and provincial Reader's Choice awards are so important to kids, they get to read works written by talented Canadian authors. These awards are also incredibly important to Canadian writers and their publishers since they help get the word out about books and boost sales in the process.

This author is really grateful. Thank you all!