CHARIS COTTER

Fall is my favourite time of year. There’s a snap in the air, a little icy touch to the wind, and the rainbows and clouds are chasing each other across the sky outside my window. Ghosts are on the prowl and Halloween is just a few weeks away. And I’m ready to tell some ghost stories! This year, I’m kicking off the Spooky Month with a rare opportunity to scare some grownups instead of just kids. I’m hosting a night of ghost stories at the St John’s Storytelling Festival on O

Here I am, dirty pajamas and all The life of a writer holds some sweet moments. One of the sweetest is writing the last line of a book. Today I did that. The line is: “Yay,” he called out. “More ghosts!” It may not look like much without the other 53 chapters in front of it! But it brought a big smile to me just now when I wrote it. The book is “Roxy Malone and the Shadow of Dread,” and it’s a collaboration between me and my daughter, Zoe Cleland. We started it back in 2022,