Robin Rivers

Made it over to Vancouver Kidsbooks today to score the reading my students will do this term through QACW. Of course, I had to make a few personal purchases to add to the growing to-read stack for myself.

Alright, I haven’t exactly spent a whole lot of time blogging about writing this year. I could blame the pandemic or being an entrepreneur. I’ve been heads-down with just about everything involved in teaching writing to more than 60 students, spent a whole lot of time with editors, and learned so much in the middle […]

September in Victoria, B.C. is the perfect time of year to escape the pandemic to log some serious writing time. Ahhhhh.

This part of the editing process for me has been intense. I’ve spent almost twelve weeks re-writing The Woman On The Wall and really shifting my mental approach to storytelling. It’s beautiful, really. I’ve learned so much about myself and discovered that I truly love writing historical fantasy (turns out all of those years of […]

Medieval hymns piping through my headphones as I pore through photos from my research trip to France. The search for the true Mona Lisa continues with this latest draft of Woman On The Wall.

After I started working with a developmental editor in late October of 2021, it became very apparent that I would need to complete a pretty hefty re-write of The Woman On The Wall in order to get it to where it needed to be. First thing up, a reset of the protagonist. I always start […]