Cameron Lowe's Blog, page 3
May 3, 2021
I’m off Twitter and Facebook so… hello!
The title pretty much spells out the bulk of this post. I’ve left Facebook and Twitter (and am in the long, tedious process of cleaning out those dead links from my ebooks, so apologies for that). There’s no real drama to the decision. I just hate logging in and being miserable for the time I’d spend browsing. There’s only so much deliberate ignorance I can stand, and boy, it’s been layered on pretty thick over the last five years or so.
That said, you’re probably going to see more of me here...
October 24, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapters 36-39 (The End!)
Lumping all these together because I think the flow would feel weird if I didn’t. As pleasant as it’s been to revisit Garrett and Brianna, revisiting On Hallowed Lanes has given me a degree of closure on this series. Frankly, I’m ready to be done with Garrett’s mopey nature and Brianna’s pinball personality. I love them to death, don’t get me wrong. But it’s nice to shut the last door on them too.
Notes on these chapters – here you can see the earliest incarnation of the fight Garrett eventua...
October 23, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapter 35
And we’re down to it with just a few chapters left. If this had been rewritten, the Vancouver/return to Irisville section would have been a much larger part of this novel. As it stands, your torture and mine is almost done. Again, some mild foreshadowing here to events in the Rankin Flats series. I like to think Garrett and Brianna made their trip to Japan someday.
Chapter 35
“I know who has the child,” he said.
“What do you mean, has her?”
They threw everything into their suitcases ...
October 22, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapter 33-34
Warning – spoilers for a potential future Seven Heroes novel, though the details are going to be changed quite a bit.
To my credit, I actually really liked the closing of this novel, and that really started with these chapters. The child ghost’s big reveal is one of my favorite WTF moments from the series, and it’s too good not to recycle into something I’ll eventually publish. All right, enjoy. Not too much left in the book now.
Chapter 32
Two notepads lay on the table beside cups of h...
October 21, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapter 31
The note Monica left at the condo said to try to meet them at the harbor each morning or evening, but when Garrett saw a group of passing ghosts on the way to the museums in Vanier Park, he groaned, “I’ve been an idiot.”
“What?” Brianna asked. “Why?”
“There are ghosts all around us. All I need to do is grab one of them and ask.”
As it turned out, the four ghosts lost him in the bustle before he could find a parking spot, but an hour’s worth of driving around the park and t...
October 20, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapter 30
Hope. The name of the town seemed almost cruel, considering what Garrett and Brianna were researching. A pot of coffee between them at a diner near their hotel, they checked and rechecked Garrett’s research.
It didn’t make sense. None of it made sense.
Their waitress came by with their check. Garrett dug out a fifty, laid it on the table, and told her to keep the coffee fresh and hot until they left. When she told them her shift ended in fifteen minutes, he added another fift...
October 19, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapter 29
Thankfully, here we move out of the dreadful middle third of the novel and into the last. I’ve mentioned it before, but I suck at the midsection of novels. Anyways, the curtain’s finally being peeled back.
Chapter 29
A box of turtles, truffles, cookies, and banana bread between them as Brianna drove out of Prince George, Garrett relayed everything Dr. Dennings had told him. Brianna didn’t interrupt once, stopping only now and then to split a bite between them, feeding her with chocolate-s...
October 18, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapter 28
Garrett whines so damn much in this novel. Ugh.
Chapter 28
They left the hospital together the next day around noon. The doctor wasn’t thrilled, but Brianna was feeling better, if not necessarily happier. Garrett walked just behind her out of the hospital. She slowed to try to catch his hand in hers, but his fingers didn’t play with hers the way they usually did. He looked away and muttered something about not wanting to seem too needy. Her heart broke again but she didn’t let go.
Their...
October 17, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapter 27
Again… not edited. Sigh.
Chapter 27
The child-like ghost watched him shuffle around the waiting room, head cocking side to side like a dog trying to understand its master’s voice. The push on the scarred-face-kind-smile woman had been a move born of animal frustration. The child hadn’t meant to do it, much as it never meant to be drawn back time and time again to this weird couple. It had been simply too hungry to ignore the gnawing in its soul for much longer, and had pushed the woman tow...
October 16, 2020
On Hallowed Lanes, Chapter 26
“I’m sorry,” Garrett said dully.
“You’re driving me crazy apologizing,” she said, only kidding a little. She tried her best not to be irritable, but after the sixth or seventh apology, it was hard to be a saint about things. Her hand rose to her forehead again. Yup. Another fever. Wonderful.
“I’m sorry for that too.” This time, there was a faint hint of a smile on his lips, but his eyes were still flashing their “vacancy” sign at her. He sniffed, and for a moment, she thought...
