Yearly Archive: 2024

Registration is now open for Memoirs I: Finding Your Voice at Pencil and Prose. Everybody’s got a story. I know this because I am a writer, and by writer I really mean a sort of magpie — you know those birds that fly around collecting all the cool and shiny bits they find? Yeah, that’s me, but instead of shiny bits, I collect snippets…
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Lovely people of the internet! My latest novel, the third book in the Stafford Falls trilogy, is now available for purchase in print and ebook on Amazon. If you’re in Canada, you can go here to buy: The Spaghetti Supper Sangha In the US, you can go here to buy: The Spaghetti Supper Sangha More nostalgic thoughts later, but in the meantime here’s the…
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So. I finished the manuscript for The Spaghetti Supper Sangha around 11:30 this morning — more about that later — and I felt that after 109,000 words (and all this time) this event merited a little celebration. (Little is the key word here — I was home with the dogs on a day of pouring, cold rain and was still in my pyjamas because…
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Amazing things often begin as tiny moments. One of those moments happened last July, while sitting at a picnic table in Stratford, Ontario, basking in the morning sunshine. My oldest and dearest friend Sonia and I had gone there — an annual pilgrimage that Sonia made for 30 years with her mother, who died last year. I am there to try to fill that…
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So, you probably thought I was dead. And I’ll admit, there were a few close calls. (Is it just me or have people recently become really terrible drivers?) But no, the rumours of my demise have been greatly exaggerated and no doubt have been fuelled by my seeming disappearance from the interweb spaces. To be honest, I didn’t have much to say (I still…
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