Well a lot can change in a week! I had to cancel the book launch at the Granite, which I'd begun to advertise, because the club became unavailable. I was offered Easter weekend but the band couldn't make it, so I decided to try a...
Happy Saturday morning. A bit of good news to share. I'll be having a book launch for When Last Seen on Saturday, April 29 (save the date!) at the Ottawa Granite Curling Club. As many know, the club is closing down for good in May in...
It's been a busy week on the writing front. Putting in a few long days. When Last Seen is now final - all edits completed - and it's uploaded to Ingram, the site where libraries and bookstores order from. The book has also been posted on...
We're a week into 2023 and it's been feeling like spring all week. Rain, freezing rain, grey skies. I'm kind of missing frigid and snowy, something I thought I'd never say. It was another review/editing week along with work on the audiobook. My next task is...
New Year's Eve 2022 and time to look back at the writing year that was. It would be difficult to review the past twelve months without context. Covid 19 was still very much a factor, limiting in-person events, particularly during fall and winter months. As we...
Christmas Eve 2022. This is my favourite day as we prepare for a special evening meal, wrap the last of the gifts, and light a fire. It's a peaceful time -- time to slow down and spend time with loved ones. A winter storm blew...
Blogging this morning in a winter wonderland. Forty centimetres of snow beginning Thursday night, and the city is still digging out. On the plus side, we're going to have a white Christmas! Speaking of which, my talk at the Capital Crime Writers' Christmas dinner went great...
Two events this week. Last Saturday, I was on the police procedural panel as part of the Maple Leaf one-day mystery conference. Glenn Rivard moderated and my co-panelists were Jim Napier and Michael Kent. I spent the entire rest-of-the-day taking in the other panels and...
Three weeks until Christmas. Note to self. Be more organized next year. (I write this same note every December 1st.) And yet, I'm getting to a point in my life when rolling with whatever comes seems the best path forward. So here is a sweet gift...
