I have exciting news brewing to share very soon, but in the meantime, I thought I would give my subscribers a first glimpse into A Garden of Shadows…

December 2022

“Always in the big woods, when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with feelings of curiosity and…
I woke this morning, winter solstice, with this song in my head and the overwhelming need to get somewhere to watch the sunrise. As I dressed in warm…
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November 2022

I originally wrote you a lovely long post about the experience of finishing my second book. There were references to articles about the “curse of the…
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October 2022

Our little pocket of the Goldstream Valley sits above the temperamental O’Connor Creek. Sometimes it is a trickle, sometimes a raging torrent that chews…
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To honor Indigenous Peoples Day, I am re-publishing a section from the very first newsletter about The Voyage of the Pleiades. One of the issues I…

September 2022

One aspect of The Voyage of the Pleiades and the new book A Garden of Shadows, that I haven’t written much about is that they are both murder mysteries…
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August 2022

For those of you who might have missed it, I had a fifty-word story appear in the latest issue of Blink-Ink. No, you can’t read the issue online, it is…
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This week I reach the milestone of querying my book for a year. I thought it might be useful to share with you what exactly that means and why you…
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July 2022

If it hasn’t been obvious from the subject and excerpts I have shared from The Voyage of the Pleiades, plants are a huge part of the book. Not…

June 2022

I thought I would take advantage of the new feature on Substack and offer a recording of me reading a letter from the Voyage of the Pleiades. I hope…
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May 2022

A table read.
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