Hello Silver Birch Readers!

The Royal Woods is my first book for kids. I hope you like it. I’ve written lots of other things – screenplays, short stories, magazine articles, and right now I’m working on a book for adults – but The Royal Woods was by far the most fun I’ve ever had writing anything. Partly that’s because I wrote it for my daughter M J who was eight years old at the time. Not only did I write it for her, she also helped me with it. As soon I’d finish a chapter, I’d read it to her and she’d tell me what she liked and didn’t like, and even give me suggestions about what might happen next. Not that I always took her advice. If I had, the story would have ended happily after only about two pages.
I live in downtown Toronto with my wife and two kids. I teach English at a nearby high school, and whenever I get the chance, I sneak off to a small dark corner of the basement and write. Since I’m not writing a book for anyone in the house right now, there’s no one to read it to except for the cat. So far, he hasn’t been very helpful with advice.
You can visit The Royal Woods blog at theroyalwoods.blogspot.com