About: kira@vermond.ca

It's true! This week I launched a pretty awesome project: a new podcast called The Buzz: Kids Edition based on Trending: How and why stuff gets popular (Owlkids, 2020). The book came out right at the beginning of the pandemic, so I thought it could use a little extra love. Besides, podcasts are so fun!...

Do you love to write? Me too. Let's do some writing and learning together this fall on Saturday mornings in Guelph, Ont. I'm running a new 4-week class at The Bookshelf (upstairs, in the cafe) for a small group of young writers who want to learn the basics of creating a story that everyone will want...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a photo of my book Half-Truths and Brazen Lies on Facebook with this little gem:

"Looks like I should have called my book, "Half-Truths and Alternative Facts."

It was shortly after the term, "alternative facts" launched itself into our collective lexicon (our language and vocabulary). Everybody seemed to be...

You know what? Half-Truths and Brazen Lies is a 2017 Silver Birch non-fiction nominee for the super fantastic Forest of Reading program offered by the Ontario Library Association (OLA). [caption id="attachment_2340" align="alignright" width="146"] Half-Truths and Brazen Lies is a Silver Birch Award 2017 non-fiction nominee![/caption] I couldn't...