Good rainy morning! This is a great day to visit your independent bookstore or to take part in the independent bookstore crawl. I'll be appearing at Books on Beechwood in Ottawa this afternoon with John Delacourt from 1:00 to 2:30 as part of their author lineup....
Easter weekend! The sky has been grey, and the weather rainy this long weekend here in Ottawa as I type. We've had a cool, wet April so far, but the heat has to arrive sometime. I'm looking forward to cleaning out my garden, but as...
Good Saturday morning. Thinking back over the week, I spent most of it editing the manuscript due June 1st to Dundurn. I'm using post-it notes to jot down the highlights of each chapter, making a timeline to ensure all aligns. In a later chapter, I found...
Quite the week on the tariff front, my friends. The craziness south of the border continues...
And just when we thought we were well into spring ...
It was a writing-kind of week. The end of the first draft is in sight for this manuscript as I managed about 6000 words this week. It always seems that I speed up toward the end once I sort out where the plot is heading....
Good Saturday morning. It was another busy week on the writing front. First up, I confirmed a book launch for Who Lies in Wait at the Ottawa Curling Club on Thursday, May 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The manager, Dalal, offered to host and bar...
I've been busy this week. First of all, I found a Canadian printer in Burlington - a huge thank you to Peggy Blair for the recommendation - and I'm weaning myself off Amazon for books on demand. I'm using them to print my next book and...
I'm baaack. It was a fun week watching out two daughters curl in the Scotties in Thunder Bay. You can even hear my interview with CBC Ottawa Morning -- Rebecca Zandbergen interviewed my Thursday morning. If you listen, you can hear that a virus had taken...
Happy Saturday! The first weeks of 2025 have whipped past and it's almost Valentine's Day, i.e., half-way through the month. I spent most of this week writing and managed just over 5,000 words. I'm at 53,000 words and entering the last stretch. I'll continue keeping up...