Good Saturday morning. It's been another busy week! The official release date for Fatal Harvest finally arrived on Monday and the book is now available pretty much everywhere. To mark the release, my friend and fellow crime fiction writer Dietrich Kalteis posted this interview on his...
A busy week. Last Saturday, I curled in a fundraiser called Curling for a Cause with Ted, my daughter Julia and son-in-law Robin (married to Lisa). All told, we raised $12,000 for the Cancer Society, including over $800 raised by raffling off a name in my...
Good morning, everyone! It's been quite the blustery, snowy week in Ottawa, but temperatures are on the rise and some sunshine is in the forecast. Grey clouds are going to clear up ...
Easter weekend. A good time to share some exciting news. This has been in the works for a while, but it's only this past week that things became formalized. Sullivan Entertainment of Road to Avonlea and Wind at My Back fame, has signed a shopping agreement...
We've covered a few miles since last post. On Sunday, we drove to Fredericton, New Brunswick to cheer on our daughter Lisa and her curling partner John Epping in the national curling mixed doubles championship. Our lovely spring weather turned into a blizzard outside Montreal...
Good Saturday morning once again. Fatal Harvest will be released in a month on April 15 and preorders are open at both Amazon and Kobo. The launch is at Perfect Books on May 1st. Last Sunday, I drove to meet a book club at the Bridge...
Good Saturday, everyone! This is a marvellous day to stay indoors if you live in one of the outrageous weather locations of the world. Ottawa has virtually no snow (and believe me this is highly unusual for us this time of year), and we have...
Sitting here on another Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and the entire weekend ahead. I've had a most productive writing week, clocking in at 25,000 words on the latest manuscript - pushing forward 6,000 words since last Saturday! I also have thought through next...
We woke up to one of the coldest winter mornings of the year after record-high warm temperatures all week - such strange yo yo weather in Ottawa this February. Even my characters have begun dreaming of getting away on holidays to tropical beaches. I met my...
Back at my keyboard and enjoying getting back into my latest manuscript. I organized my post it notes , catching up on the synopsis and then got typing. I managed about 3500 words this week, so coming in around 15,000 words total. I will attempt...