Novel Debut

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author, books, debut, mystery, novel, romance, writing

At last! My novel has entered the Wide World and I am so excited. Can’t wait to have the first copy in hand. You can see it at Friesen Press and order it there, where you’ll get the best price (except for shipping. Outrageous and I’m protesting) unless you prefer electronic books, in which case Amazon has it for download, and Powells has it for other tablets and iPhone/Touch/Pad etc. It will be available as soft cover and hard cover as well within a week or so at Amazon with their more reasonable shipping deals.

In the meantime, I’ve uploaded a video to YouTube which is actually just a still picture of the cover and I read the prologue and 1st chapter.

To all those who steadfastly asked “When’s your book coming?” I thank you — for being patient with me and my crazy adventure and still showing interest.

I would love to hear your thoughts and it always helps when readers take the time to post reviews.

Seaweed in the Soup

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authors, detective, fiction, writing

I’m on the lookout for local authors.  If I’m not sitting in front of this screen writing, I’m reading. So, it’s time to extend my “Favourite Authors” list to include the creative offerings close to home, Vancouver Island.  

I’ve just finished “Seaweed in the Soup” by Stanley Evans, a British born Victoria native and found it to be a great detective novel that had enough skillfully written setting and character development to engage this – primarily Literary Fiction – reader into burning the midnight oil. See my review here.

Everything Was Good-Bye

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books, fiction, review, writing

Just finished reading “Everything Was Good-Bye” by Gurjinder Basran. Excellent read. As a winner of the Great BC Novel she brought to life a Punjabi family, their struggles, their pleasures and the difficult intersection of the Punjabi community with Western Culture that must be crossed by the children of immigrants. See more of my review

Novel Pending

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mystery, novel, romance, suspense

I have the first proofs and, with the resourceful help of my Chemainus Writer’s Group, I’ve captured the “comma-kazies” and the “time-line trippers”. The cover looks fabulous and I’m over the moon excited. “Journey” will be available at Friesenpress.com and at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. I’ll give all the links when I get notice that I’m up and running.
Here’s the cover and blurb. Journey_HC_PRF_11-12-14

Virtuous

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fiction, life, shorts, women

A Tweet the other day stimulated the use of “virtuous” as a writing prompt. I used it to build a character sketch and uploaded it to an online writing network — one which I highly recommend — for critique and feedback.

The feedback was fairly enthusiastic so I’ve uploaded here. You’ll find it under my “writing” menu, up in the top left corner.
The network I was referring to is http://www.scribophile.com