Her name was Bethany. Perhaps we were destined to meet. After my mother died—I took care of Connie for 13 years—we lived hand-to-mouth. I was debilitated by daily migraines and chronic fatigue from a misdiagnosed pituitary tumor, and worked sporadically, so we couldn’t afford a city rent. We packed our meagre belongings, and found a…
Calling all teachers! So happy to report that our teacher’s novel study guide for Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve is finished and is now available to any teacher who might wish to read the middle-grade mystery in class (and save time planning yet another lesson!) The guide was developed by a retired Grade 5 and…
Secrets of the Hotel Maisonnueve is now available in elementary and junior high classrooms throughout the province thanks to the Nova Scotia Book Bureau. If you’re a teacher, let me know and I’ll send you a copy. I can even visit your class to talk about being an author! We’ve gone to a second printing,…
Terri at Bookly Matters loved Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve, and this review landed in my inbox during a difficult month, proving to be the perfect balm after several exhausting months. I hope she doesn’t mind that I swiped her review photo because I loved it just that much! Rich with warm and wonderful characters,…
Author Chris Benjamin had nice things to say about Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve in Atlantic Books Today and I am so grateful! Through complex and diverse characters, Levangie weaves a complex and revealing tale, fully satisfying to the young reader hungry for mystery and adventure, but equally rewarding for wisdom-seeking adults. Kudos to Levangie…
During the Golden Age of Blogging, I ran two blogs called Smart Like Streetcar, and Telling Stories. I was religious about posting, and readers could find new content three times a week—about writing, climate change, politics, cooking, joy and sadness, Nova Scotia, and living with a misdiagnosed brain tumour that was threatening my life. I…
I often go for weekend drives exploring Nova Scotia’s gorgeous Atlantic Coast with my wife, Kristina, and one Saturday we happened by a small roadside little library at a campground. She found a venerable book inside by Canadian Charles G.D. Roberts that she wanted to read, but we had nothing to put in its place….
As a kid, did you risk life & limb because a book was so good that you couldn’t put it down while walking home from school? Imagine how it feels when you’re an adult & a kid is doing that while reading YOUR book. 💕