Weird Christmas A few weeks before Christmas, there was a knock at my door. It was, as you might expect in 2020, a courier. But this delivery was an enormous, heavy cardboard box covered in stickers in Polish. Erm… What? As I dug through the mountains of styrofoam peanuts that filled the box, my mind …
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The Voyages of the Starship Teapot When the world is rubbish, I just have to look at these guys to feel a bit better about things. Here they are, waiting for walkies. They’re good boys. One month on and I’m still working on a novel about an IT project manager in Toronto who gets kidnapped by bounty hunters from …
Excessive Silliness In October, I got the edits back for Livid Skies. It’s got a cover now and the whole thing has been typeset. The proofreader is hard at work on the final version. But in the meantime, I’ve released almost-final ARCs into the wild. You can get one here if you’re interested. With that done, it was time for …
ARCs of Livid Skies will be ready to go in early November. If you’d like one, you can sign up to receive it here – though I won’t approve your request until it’s good to go. Having escaped Earth as a deadly pandemic took hold, autistic scientist Devon and her fellow colonists are hoping for …
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Kat’s a PI on the tail of a cheating husband. Lita’s a homicide detective returning from stress leave. Both get caught up in different sides of an investigation when a serial killer’s on the loose in Saskatoon. This is an easy-reading, edge-of-your-seat, page turner. I thought I knew where it was going — and I …
Updated: Sep 13 Let me tell you a story. Ten years ago, I was hospitalised with severe sepsis. I’d gone into hospital with extreme neck pain, headache, and fever. Not once did anyone look at my neck. I have the the notes from the hospital. They show I repeatedly complained of neck pain throughout my …
Imperfect Skies Since receiving feedback on Livid Skies from my wonderful structural editor, Michelle, I’ve been hard at work. Tweaking things, adding whole new chapters, brutally murdering my darlings. One of the parts of the book that gave me the most trouble was the first chapter. It just lacked punch. Most of my chapters have been …
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Past Imperfect I’ve got a new short story coming out in the next few weeks. My editor is finishing up with it over the weekend. If you’d like a free copy before it’s published, shoot me an email and I’ll get you one as soon as it’s ready. Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. …
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A few days ago, I sent my second novel off to my fabulous editor, Michelle. This is a follow-up to Devon’s Island, but I’ve designed it to stand on its own feet. The first novel followed the team as they planned their new life on Mars. This one – tentatively called Livid Skies – follows …
A greased tribble… I’m still working on the follow-up to Devon’s Island. This morning I’ve been writing a scene which has had me researching newborn puppies. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never actually met a newborn puppy. I’ve always adopted my dogs as adults – until recently anyway. In the autumn of 2018, …
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