A move to British Columbia in the late Seventies from her Ontario birthplace became a career move for Lynn Manuel. Since then the White Rock writer has created a juvenile mystery series, picture books and the storytelling queens, Dagny Comfort and Megan Canary, introduced in The Cherry-Pit Princess. The Lickety-Split Princess (Coteau $7.95) finds the girls entering a fairy-tale contest to get their picture in the paper. But Dagny suffers a sudden and mysterious loss of imagination. 1-55050-178-X [Louise Donnelly / 2001]