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June 3, 2019
Advance Review Copies (#ARCs) on offer
So… In twenty-seven days (June 30th) I’ll be releasing book number FOURTEEN (that’s a lot of words — deleted during the editing process) and it’s called The Murder of Jeremy Brookes. It’s available now for preorder, but I’d like to get some reviews under its belt before (or immediately after) its release. The genre is […]
May 25, 2019
The Places I’ve Been, part 31
Right up front, nothing in this post exposes sources or methods or any other secret-squirrel shit that might get me in trouble with the Canadian Navy. I hope. I spent a work term at the Canadian Naval Engineering Unit in Dartmouth ,Nova Scotia. Memory is a little bit fuzzy, but I think it might have […]
April 20, 2019
The Murder of Jeremy Brookes
The Murder of Jeremy Brookes McGinnis Investigations has been operating a small but successful shop in Campbelltown, an hour south of Sydney, for over a decade. Business has been what you’d expect in a sort of rough town in a sort of rough country, with an ever increasing circle of rough and tumble clients […]
The Murder of Jeremy Brookes – Pre-Order
The Murder of Jeremy Brookes McGinnis Investigations has been operating a small but successful shop in Campbelltown, an hour south of Sydney, for over a decade. Business has been what you’d expect in a sort of rough town in a sort of rough country, with an ever increasing circle of rough and tumble clients […]
April 7, 2019
Your First Chapter
The first chapter of your book is the onramp to the world you are creating. It needs to be broad and hinderance free, sucking your reader into the vortex that is your story. Which is why I’m re-writing mine, and you might want to consider re-writing yours. I don’t know about you, but when I […]
February 18, 2019
The Basics of life
I was thinking today, while in a position that is very conducive to thought, that there are some things in life that we expect to be easy, simple and basic, and some things in life difficult, complex and hard to understand. In the ‘easy’ category we would have walking on the beach, opening doors and making peanut […]
January 18, 2019
The NB Double-you G
Today (as I write this – I have no idea when you read this) is the monthly gathering of the NBWG – Northern Beaches Writers’ Group. (Note the correct placement of that apostrophe — we’re good.) (And proper parenthetical punctuation — we’re not fooling around.) There will, or course, be a spelling mistake in here […]
January 11, 2019
That Good Place
This is an advertisement for a TV show that needs no advertising. The best half hour show on television right now isn’t Brooklyn-99, it’s one of the other shows made by the guy that made B-99. The Good Place, the story of 4 humans who have died and their adventures in the various afterlives, All the […]
January 10, 2019
Oh, The Places I’ve Been, part 28
I’ve been fortunate enough to have lived in a great number of places, exposing me to a great number of cultures and a great number of dickheads. And a great number of nice people. But you remember the dickheads. I’m trying to remember the dates. I started university in the autumn of 1978. I believe […]
January 9, 2019
Wanna Fight Me?
I was a scrawny, painfully shy, face-stuck-in-a-book pre-teen which, in the neighbourhood I grew up, meant I was a regular recipient of smackdowns. They were fast, messy and painful (for me — though I’m sure the other guy’s knuckles hurt, too). Messy not only because of the bloods, but because it invariably ended on the […]
