I’m pleased to announce that I’m now affiliated with Iguana Books and that they will be working with me on my next two novels. Writing is not so solitary! Greg Ioannou has been my editor since the day I walked into his Colborne Communications office with my in-progress manuscript for Lifeliner. This was in 1999,…
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My First Guest Post on a Writer Blog!
L.M. Stull is an Indie Writer like me and “spends her days chained to a desk at a law firm in southern Virginia.” She’s on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads, and she runs the Fellow Writer’s Group on Facebook. She wrote A Thirty-Something Girl, a literary novel that’s garnered praise. And I’m pleased to announce that…
COTA Case Manager, the Saga Continues
Update to Case Management drama: I met with my case manager from COTA (see previous post for the story so far). I told her to get to it; I didn’t even give her a chance for her usual draining chit-chat. I needed my energy to get through the session with her; thankfully my moral anger…
Scary Writing Goals
“Now listen, you who say, ’Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ ’Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” (NIV James…
Voting the Rejecting Way
I don’t want to vote. The First Past the Post system means if I want to vote for a particular party but don’t like the candidate, I have to vote for the candidate to register a vote for the party. And if I like a particular candidate out of all of them but not the…
Formal Launch of SHE
She is the classic tale of betrayal and friendship – with an evil entity thrown into the mix. Akaesman is that evil entity. And a young Toronto songwriter is his latest prey. Akaesman violently invades her and tries to make her into his image forever. Her career dies. Her name is gone. And then as…
She in First Chapter Plus E-Catalogue
My novel She is listed in First Chapter Plus for September. First Chapter Plus is an e-catalogue that provides convenient links to the first chapters and Amazon pages of creative and cutting edge books. They write: “Just as film previews help you decide whether to pay to watch a movie, each month our e-catalog will…
Thoughts on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
“I had finished breakfast, I was near the kitchen table, facing out I think, listening to 92.5 FM, Kiss 92, when Billy [sic], the female half of the morning crew, announced that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center. I thought what are they joking about now, but when they continued to…
Identity
Identity. What is that? With the 9/11 anniversary imminent, Muslim identity is one of the hot topics on talk shows. With school starting again, African or Caribbean identity in our education system is on some minds although not as dominant as last year. And in cyclical fashion, First Nations identity is discussed amongst some Canadians.…