23 Mar Road Trip
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 on the way down with another bad stretch of icy, slushy, snowy highway through New Brunswick on the way home yesterday – I’ve never seen so many vehicles in the ditch. Luckily, we weren’t one of the cars or transport trucks that slid off the road! Lisa and John played some great games and made top 12 (out of 32 teams) but lost in a really close one. We had a great time over all – some terrific restaurants in Fredericton, and I got in my seafood fix.
John & Lisa both celebrate birthdays this week!
So, two bits of good news this week.
My short story submission titled “The Pool” was accepted for the upcoming anthology Larceny and Last Chances, which should be released in June. Entries were cut off at 80, and 20 were selected so I’m in great company. I’m looking forward to reading all the stories, which word has it are all excellent.
Fatal Harvest was an Editor’s Pick and received a great review in BookLife. The reviewer calls the book “gripping and emotionally resonant” and says the procedural is a “standout series”. You can read the entire review here. It’s also been receiving great advance reviews on NetGalley – you can check these out too at this link.
I didn’t manage to write every day since we were in Fredericton, but got in about 2000 words, now at about 38,500 words. I’m planning to get back in the writing groove today. This book is set in the dead of winter so I got some inspiration on the trip 🙂
A little bit of personal family history. My grandpa had an impressive career in education and in 1967, was honoured by having a field at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton named in his honour. (For starters, when Grandpa was 16, he was principal of a school!) The field is a stone’s throw from the arena where Lisa curled this week, so quite a full circle moment. Grandpa and my dad were both keen curlers, and they would have been so proud of their great granddaughter/granddaughter and all her accomplishments.
