On my calendar

As the year winds down, my schedule winds up. I just finished a Flash Fiction seminar for OIW - great bunch and the time flew by! I have been interviewed for both radio and newspapers (very pleased with the Citizen review of Wandering Backward:
Ottawa Citizen Sept.5
In 1944, seven-year-old Molly O'Connor moved from Huntsville, Ont., to Port Hope with her father, a police chief, and her mother and older brother. Decades later, she returned to her Port Hope roots, walking the streets where she had lived and played, eventually turning her reminiscences into this memoir. O'Connor, who now lives in North Gower, has penned a detailed account of life during the Second World War from a child's perspective, with coal deliveries, Eaton's catalogues, baking lessons, the latest Roy Rogers movie, mentholated oil rubs for colds, roller skates for Christmas and tragically, an uncle shot down over Germany. Many of the anecdotes are charmingly Ontarian. Older readers will wax nostalgic and younger readers will learn about the world "back then."

I have a number of speaking engagments booked for December and will be flogging my books at the the North Gower Farmers Christmas Market on December 4th.

I'm always looking for opportunities to speak to groups so welcome any invitations - just email me at fourteencups@hotmail.com

The cold weather is drawing me south. I still have not determined my exact location but have a couple of good leads. This week for sure, I will know when and where I will be from January to May.

Keep posted to my blog for regular updates

Molly O'Connor - fourteencups@hotmail.com