Good Saturday morning this last week of September. The days continue to be spectacular in my corner of the universe. I curled my first game of the season last night and am feeling a bit achy this morning - a good achy though. It was a...
Another week in the books. We've had a gorgeous stretch of September weather to end the summer. I've been spending a lot of the day in the backyard, writing, reading and puttering in the garden. I've begun emptying the saddest-looking of the potted flowers even...
Good morning, everyone. We're having a lovely week weather-wise in Ottawa although the autumn leaves have begun turning. I've been busy editing the fourth in the Hunter and Tate series as I incorporate comments from my three beta readers before sending it off to my editor,...
Hi Everyone - This post means summer is drawing to a close and school is back. I'm sad about that, but happy to be blogging about my writing life. I hope you had a wonderful summer! So today I will be at Indigo South Keys from...
Just seeing if I can sneak this Kitchissippi Times interview onto Facebook via my blog! Facebook considers it a news story and won't let me post it ...
Happy Saturday! May 1st turned out to be a lovely day for a book launch at Perfect Books. My longtime friend Susan Rothery introduced me as I gave a short reading from Fatal Harvest. Then it was time to drink wine, snack and mingle ...
The Fatal Harvest book launch at Perfect Books is this coming Wednesday evening -- for those who can make it, this is a most casual event, mainly a party. There will be wine and lots of time to mingle. And if you cannot make it, I'll...
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 ...