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18 June 2026
I've entitled today's blog post "The Time Was Right" because I was invited to Westmount Public Libra...

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Monique has been named the Montreal Jewish Public Library's 2026 writer-in-residence. In addition to working on her own writing project -- a memoir -- she'll offer writing workshops at the JPL for both adults and kids. 

Remember This: The Fascinating World of Memory (Orca) was nominated for both The Lane Anderson Award for Canadian Science Writing -- Young Reader Category, and the Quebec Writers' Federation Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and YA Literature.

Yasmine, Experte en Scènes de Crime (the French translation of Forensics Squad Unleashed) was recently published by Les Editions Héritage. The novel was translated into French by Rachel Martinez.

The Korean version of Planet Grief was recently published by Changbi Publishers.

 

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