Looks like fun! I think I would have dug this sort of thing. Girl Overboard by Aimee Ferris, 9780142407998, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. So they get to travel and help people in that region and looks like from their website, might even earn some college credit or at least pump up their resume/college apps. Girl Overboard : Aimee Ferris : 9780142407998. What is this Katimavik I speak of? So cool! They send kids from 17-21 to live for three months at a time in three different regions of Canada to work on various volunteer programs (trail building, tree planting, meals on wheels sort of things). He was telling me he is essentially taking a gap year to participate in the Katimavik program. So after getting that squared away, we began talking unis.

It's all run through a community resource center and if nothing else, should be a good learning experience. He's letting my book campee workshoppers take their own shot at submitting with the older highschoolers. Today I was chatting with the editor of a soon-to-be-published local literary mag to showcase the writing of high school kids in the area. Anyone with questions for Toby can shoot them to aimee ferris at gmail dot com (removing spaces, etc.) So next week's guest will be Toby Daly-Engel, shark biologist and all around cool girl. Thanks to the ol' email addy being printed on the book, I've been getting the most amazing letters from readers and thought they might like to hear about the real deal of working in the field straight from the horse's, or in this case, shark's mouth. But I'm now parking myself on my back balcony to finish my next YA, watch the various mamas and cubs wandering through (cute but yikes- TL where are you when I need you!), and conducting cool bloggy thing interviews with some of the lovely ladies of marine science (and posting the occasional bit of writerly nonsense).

I've been having a blast out on the road reporting for one of the Conde Nast mags and came home to such a lovely reception by various bloggy reviewers- thank you so much for your kind words! So has been a crazy month, this whole freelance journalist gig is hardcore.