I wrote my second book — my first novel She — during National Novel Writing Month last November, revised it and got reader feedback and revised it again during Christmas and January, and then I had to decide: head down the traditional road this time and seek an agent or go back to iUniverse? It [...]

Back in the late 1990s when I was envisioning the different ways of publishing Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story, I had an idea for an electronic version. Back in the computer middle ages, the only way I could’ve does this was on a CD, a bit clunky as a medium I had to admit. But [...]

I still have several brand-new copies of my debut book Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story in my own possession. I just discovered that I can sell them through Facebook Marketplace (OK, I’m a little slow in discovering these things) and have listed Lifeliner there for sale. You can see and share the listing by clicking [...]

Area 224, based in Chicago, are strategic communications advisors to emerging brands, and last week I spoke to Dave on Twitter when he was looking for people to interview for their blog. Apparently, a writer is a brand! And so I was on!! He asked me very different questions from the usual, and it was [...]

Been awhile in the making, but at last Lifeliner in Short is live on YouTube. Not a book trailer and not the whole biography of Judy Taylor, but a nice, pleasing taste of her amazing story set to music from ccmixter.org, licensed through Creative Commons. I had fun playing with the pitch of my voice, [...]

My new Canon CanoScan 8800F scanner has been working hard, scanning prints, negatives, and slides of Judy Taylor and the area she lived in. And I’ve at last finished scanning and fixing them. As you can imagine, some of these decades-old slides were faded, some were a bit blurred being photos of photos, and some [...]

Back in 1999, my ex and I drove up to Judy Taylor’s first house on the lake. I wanted to take photographs of not only her place, but also the area around it, the roads there and back, and of her church in Bobcaygeon. I don’t remember what I intended to use the photographs for, [...]

It’s been too long since my last blog post, but my mind was totally blank about topic possibilities this morning. And then I got an e-mail from my Swedish friend Britt Lindqvist, and my eyes popped.
I met Lindqvist through the research I did for my book Lifeliner. Those of you who have read the book [...]

Us Canadians have it easy. We write a work; it’s copyrighted. It’s not only copyrighted here but also in all the countries with which Canada has copyright relations, by being a member of the Berne Convention, including the United States. However, many of us Canuck authors can’t get attention from Canadian publishers if we streaked [...]