November. Not my favourite month. However the 20 degree temps in Ottawa are keeping my spirits up. It's good to enjoy this weather because there will be snow soon enough. I had a quiet week on the writing front as I had lots of other stuff...
Happy Hallowe'en! This will be the only one to fall on a Saturday for the next eleven years - an odd nugget of trivia to be sure. Well, Bouchercon in Calgary was a blast. I went with my good friend Katherine Hobbs and we managed to...
Yesterday's forecast called for 'a chance of snow'. I'm not on board. Today, I'll be taking part in the biggest mystery event ever to take place in Ottawa and you are invited. It'll be at the Jack Purcell Community Centre from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. It's...
Good Saturday morning. I'm kicking off this Thanksgiving long weekend with a two-hour signing at Coles Carlingwood, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. It'll be interesting to see if the mall is busy or quiet, but regardless, I always enjoy chatting with store staff and meeting whoever...
This is such a beautiful time of year. Changing leaves, farmers' markets, chilly nights and warm days. I've been putting my garden to bed, cleaning out pots and putting them away for winter. Battening down the hatches. It was a quiet week on the event front...
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And another week has flown by. I have/had three events this week. The first took place Wednesday evening and was the launch of a Capital Mystery 2 at the Metropolitan on Sussex. It's a lovely venue for a launch. The room was packed and most of...
Welcome back to my Saturday morning blog! I hope you had a healthy, restful but invigorating summer with lots of adventures. Soon after I stopped blogging in the spring, Ted and I caught a plane to Paris and then a smaller plane to Nice where we...
And spring has finally arrived in the Ottawa Valley ...
Happy Saturday afternoon! My internet was down all morning so I'm blogging late today. A bit going on this week in my writing world. Wednesday afternoon, I joined a Kingston book club by Zoom to discuss Cold Mourning and Butterfly Kills. They'd read both and had...