Thursday, June 30, 2011

HNT - Sue Retires

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Yesterday was a strange and sad day. Sue Hockeridge, one of my Textbook Buyers at the McMaster bookstore , retired. Sue had been working...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Dad's Truck

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Today is my Dad's birthday. He would have turned 74 years old today if he were still alive. Every year on or near his birthday, I...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)

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Two recent book-world headlines are kicking around in my head lately, but ultimately the same theme emerges. I'll get to that in a momen...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Man In The Wall

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Now that the re-telling of the silly Darth Tater Spud Wars series is done, I'm back to doing silly one-off HNT posts. (If you missed th...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Giving eBooks The SAME Value As Books

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There's an interesting post on MobyLives regarding an unscientific survey conducted by Nathan Bransford .   What should an e-book cos...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Those Little Things

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Sometimes it's those little things that make such a big difference. The other day I had printed off a Google Map for some books that ...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Active Downloads

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Following the successful experiment with releasing my short story SPIRITS direct to digital, I thought I'd continue to play around with...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

My Father And My Son

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I thought I would be feeling bitter-sweet about Father's Day, again focusing on how much my Dad would have loved Alexander, and how my s...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Pasricha Pastiche

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I love it when two awesome things combine to become something equally marvellous. A classic that's a pretty common one for most people...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

HNT - Spud Wars: Epilogue

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Continued from HNT - Spud Wars: The Conclusion As father and son were celebrating the defeat of their foe, Darth Tater, they failed to h...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Is Less More, More Or Less?

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There's an interesting post called " You've Got Thirty Pages " on the Melville House Publishing website talking about ou...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Doin' It Right

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I was delighted to see Random House Canada announce yesterday a special digital release of a hot new Linwood Barclay novella, Clouded Visio...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Baba's Burial

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We buried my Baba this past Friday. She passed away in February . In Northern Ontario you need to wait until the spring thaw before you ca...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

HNT - Spud Wars: The Conclusion

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This blog post is a serialized story continued from HNT - Spud Wars: All This Violence As Alexander and Darth Tater were playing violent...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Tickled With My Ticker

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This post is an update mostly for those who follow my blog and were waiting to hear the results of my recent heart scare. I recently poste...
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Monday, June 06, 2011

A Virtual Success

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On Friday I decided to perform a little experiment and do a "launch" for the release of a new story direct to digital. Spirits ...
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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Do One Thing Really, Really Well

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I recently won a contest from Y108 sponsored by Steamwhistle and Stonewalls . The contest reads like this:  Everybody does one thing re...
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Launch of SPIRITS (Digital Short)

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People who haven't died can still leave their spirit in a place. That's the premise for "Spirits" the tale of two youn...