I’m not known for GETTING out there… 2024, is different. Due to my family’s health issues, I don’t often sell books face-to-face, but, this has to change if I want my works to be well known. So, this year, I’m selling at Ottawa Comiccon, 2024 I’m also selling a few books that are near and …
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Penthouse Letters
In 1965, a certain magazine began publication in an attempt to compete with Hugh Heffner’s Playboy Empire. In 2016, that same magazine followed the pattern of many iconic print publications, and closed their physical publishing facilities in order to relocate themselves to a strictly online market. When PENTHOUSE magazine did so, it stopped a long-running, …
Why I Write Culture Shock
While I write LOTS of fiction, with a severe stress on the word FICTION, there are elements of real life that I often include in my stories as a way of keeping them grounded and relatable, at least, to me. In reality, I work and live on the border between the (Mostly) English speaking province …
An Eternal Legacy
Despite multiple safety measures, construction persists as being one of the most dangerous jobs in the country of Canada. As a mental defense against the threat of injury, many of us in the field have developed a gallows humor, which means we try to laugh at grim situations. Combine that with a looming sense of …
Why I Learned How To Talk With My Hands
School Crud is a thing, and in the modern age of Covid, it’s only more of a threat than ever before. With three kids in elementary, and one of them being special needs, I know what’s coming, a season of snotty noses, fevers, coughs, aches, pains, and general misery. YAY for public education. (I’m all …
The Great Plague Massacre
Mississauga, Ontario is a large city by Canadian standards, and it hosts a very grand commercial and industrial community. As such, it comes with its own housing issues, homeless populations, and when those combined, let to me being a witness to a suspected murder. High rise buildings cannot operate without support, and a key member …
It’s A Murder On Your Tools
My job takes me to a variety of locations. I’ve worked on mountain tops, deep underground below the foundations of complexes, where only dirt and rock is underfoot, to small attics, and fancy laboratories. Often though, my job takes me to more mundane structures, like high-rises or apartment penthouses. Just because they feel run-of-the-mill, does …
Once Upon a Haunted Government Night Job
After twenty years in the HVAC industry. I’ve seen some weird things, and witnessed others through a computer screen. When it comes to ghosts, I’ve apparently been involved in more than one, but the ones where I supposedly saw a ghost I never felt as threatened or as confused as the time I missed out …
REJECTIONS AND YOU
It’s Querying season again, the season when agents open up to submissions and thousands of hopeful authors and writers inundate inboxes in hopes that their manuscript will be selected as one of the few gems that the agent will fall in love with, champion, promote, and make famous. This is also, inevitably, the same season …
Carleton Place Comic Con 2022
Family day, February 21 of 2022, my hometown hosted its annual comic convention, and for the first time in my life I was behind a booth as an author hawking his own books. It was nerve racking. The first convention since the pandemic, so many people, but they were masked, vaxxed, and social distance was …