Thursday, March 20, 2014

Darkly Funny Snowman Tales

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So spring arrives in a few hours. Joy for many. Not such a happy moment for some others. I am looking forward to spring; this winte...
Monday, March 17, 2014

A Beer In Your Honour, Dad!

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Another St. Patrick's Day and another year that I will be tipping a beer back tonight in honour of my Dad, who died on this day 11 years...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

Another Great Night Out With Authors

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I had an amazing time at a recent ChiSeries Toronto reading on Wednesday night. A great crowd, I got to share the stage with two amazing wri...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

January Brings Cold Plus Cool Readings

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I am delighted to be one of the authors featured at this month's ChiSeries Toronto readings on Wednesday January 15th from 8PM to 11PM....
Friday, January 03, 2014

Top 10 Books Read in 2013

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For the past several years, I have written post summarizing the best 10 books that I read in the previous year.  I have found it a lot of fu...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries

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I am delighted that Dundurn is going to publish my third non-fiction exploration of the paranormal. Just like my first one ( Haunted Hamil...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

Help Me Capture A Caption

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I took Barnaby to visit Santa recently. It was fun for everyone, including Santa. But every time I look at this picture I keep wondering ...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

End of November Events

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I will be doing a series of speaking/writing engagements to cap off November. On Wednesday November 27th I will be the featured author du...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

NaNo NoNo's

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So NaNoWriMo is half over. At just over 20,000 words, I'm slipping behind. I can blame the extremely long hours that I work, all of t...
Friday, November 01, 2013

NaNoWriGo

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It's crazy that I haven't posted to this blog since October 10th - particularly since this has ben the most wonderful time of the ye...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

50 Shades of Hamilton

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An article I wrote for Hamilton Magazine called "50 Shades of Hamilton" was just published in the magazine's fall 2013 issue....
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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

The Day I Outsold Stephen King

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Last Saturday was the official book launch weekend for Spooky Sudbury . I drove up north late on Thursday evening and spent most o...
Friday, October 04, 2013

Finalist for 20th Annual Hamilton Literary Awards

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I was quite pleased to learn that my book Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers is a finalist for th...
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Thursday, October 03, 2013

Northern Life Article On Spooky Sudbury

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This past Saturday, Jenny and I did our book launch for Spooky Sudbury at Chapters , and a reporter from Northern Life (Ryen Veldhuis) int...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Spooky Morning North

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Last Friday I was in studio with Markus Schwabe of CBC Morning North to chat about the new book Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie ...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Spooky Swag

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Barnaby was excited to try on a new t-shirt when some of my Spooky Sudbury swag arrived this past Friday. I'll be bringing the sw...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Goodreads Giveaway

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I recently worked with my publisher to create a Goodreads giveway for SPOOKY SUDBURY. It works relatively simply. You determine how many ...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Atwood For The Win!

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Margaret Atwood 's latest book MaddAddam is just out ( Kobo eBook / IndieBound Print Book Link / Amazon Link ).  Earlier this summer, ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Remembering A Tragedy By Celebrating Their Lives

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On the anniversary of the tragic day where 2996 people lost their lives blogger D. Challenger Roe began Project 2,996 . The concept was ...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Goodreads Giveaway for SPOOKY SUDBURY

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In preparation for the book launch for SPOOKY SUDBURY , which will be taking place on Saturday September 28th in Sudbury at two different lo...