#ScribesAndMakers March 6: How do you choose a title for your book?

I don't choose them so much as they come to me. My current book has only a working title, "The Order," which I find incredibly boring. It needs a better one.

In general, I like it if it's descriptive, evocative, but also mysterious. I want to draw people in.

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#ScribesAndMakers March 8: Is there a country other than your own that influences your creativity?'

I'm Canadian, so I'm eye-balls deep in American media, so that's a huge influence, and I'm a lit professor, so multiply Canadian anglophilia by 10; England is a gigantic influence. This is what it's like for us.

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#ScribesAndMakers 13 March: Do you read short stories as often as novels?

I teach, so I read a lot of short, medium, and long fiction. There's a difference between what I like and what "teaches well," so my reading experience is often split. If I sense something will work in class, I go down a different path in my head.

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#ScribesAndMakers March 15, Is the time you've had for creativity this month what you expected?

Yes.

Sigh.

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#ScribesAndMakers March 16: Convincing to read a book you don't care for.

You might not *enjoy* #JekyllAndHyde, but it's such a huge cultural touchstone (for anglophones) that you'd be doing yourself a favour to know how the original actually goes.

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