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Rumrunners & medicine

Canadian Prohibition was different in every province.  Rumrunners and all sorts of people managed to get liquor via prescriptions for ‘medicinal purposes’  Liquor was sold as medicine, in medicine bottles and basically untaxed.  When the gov’t discovered there was tax money to be made they legalized it and controlled it.  Rumrunners then put whiskey and rum into regular bottles and

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RUMRUNNER characters

Buster Williams is a legend around the Erie Islands.  He lived on Pelee Island and ran a fishing club out on Middle Island, 3 miles south of Pelee.  He grew burley tobacco and hauled booze over to Middle Island.  In winter he, with a few men, would haul an iron sled over the ice to supply the fishing club.  Al

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The RUMRUNNERS BOY research

Just returned from Lake Erie northern shores where rumrunning was a big part of life way back when,  Very little history on rumrunners in the Pelee Island area, but I did get an interview with the ferry captain Harvey Ryersee who had a wealth of info on some rumrunning characters he garnered from old guys in the area over the

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The Rum-Runner’s Boy

Done! Completed the 3rd draft of Rum-Runners Boy! This YA crime novel is 49,000 words and has some tweaking left. Will be heading for Pelee Ontario area soon and meet up with Ferry Captain Harvey Ryersee to pick his brain about distances between the islands, lighthouses, and get some info on rum-running routes.  For more info on The Rum-Runner’s Boy,

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The Rum-Runner’s Boy – June

The Rum-Runner’s Boy has one chapter remaining.  It will be about 45,000 words and is a YA novel set in 1928 Southwestern Ontario.  I’m trying to come up with a concise synopsis for the back cover of the book.  I’ll try one now. Jarrod Hooker a 17 year old farm boy must step into his father’s shoes when his rum-running

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Buy my paperbacks

Since my publisher folded I’v been making the transition to independane.  If you want to buy my paperbacks cheaper than on Amazon let me know.  I can get  them to you cheaper .  PayPal and eTransfer are the payments of choice.   Here in the new cover for FINAL RESPONSE

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The Warning Signs were there

Often when one travels certain signs are translated wrong or are just bizarre from the ordinary.  My ‘Lost In Translation’ page has some real keepers.  If you do happen to become an unfortunate victim of a natural disaster perhaps you should paid attention because the warning signs were there!

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March update

Been busy getting back into writing after just returning from South America,  a 7 week tour of Ecuador, Peru, and some Chile and Argentina.  My firefighter pperbck novels re slowly being put onto Amazon  with Final Response going on first.  Speaking of the Amazon, our trip into the Cubayeno Forest preserve was nothing short of awesome.  Plenty of creatures and

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Firefighter paperbacks are unavailable until April

They’re available on Kindle now and will be on the rest of eBook sites very soon.  My publisher Bookkus had called it quits and returned all my rights so I have to resubmit my 3 books onto Amazon for printing.  However TEETH OF THE COCODRILO is available in all formats.  My next step is to wait and see what Langton’s

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Lunch Bucket Road lives! Wellanders who know it!

I posted Lunch Bucket Road comments about my award winning short story on two Welland, Ontario Face Book sites and received a huge response.  Many of them played along the path, or used it to go to school or work.  And here I thought no one was still around that town who took it, even remembered it.  So funny that

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