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Back to Work

Went back to work last Monday, which coincided with the Launch Date of Dreams of Mariposa. There will be a Book Tour starting March 2, 2020. If you or anyone you know is up for participating, please go and sign up.

Didn’t go anywhere, that wasn’t to say I wasn’t tempted to hop in my car and boot it someplace, but between the pets and a family member being injured, it was kind of important for me to be hanging around. I might be able to go for a trip in April, but the other person has a few...

Censorship and Prudishness, Part 2: When the Pendulum Swings the Other Way

Ever unintentionally teach a kid something and you didn’t pull the parallels together until they point-blank told you? Kids – especially tiny ones – don’t like being seen as little, but being seen as big. They want to do things they associate with kids and adults they admire.

One thing that stands out for me was my nephew Donny and apples. I could tell you stories about that kid, but if you know me I like my fruit, and apples are available year round so it’s an easy snack. But when he was...

Reconciling Freedom of Speech/Vision with Values

So I’ve seen the first episode of The Witcher with my dad. I could have watched it at work before I went on vacation, but without knowing much about the source material, and everyone saying it’s Netflix’s answer to Game of Thrones, my dad likes those sorts of things but he won’t watch Game of Thrones for a different reason than I did – I put it off because I wanted to read the books first.

Sex scenes.

Neither me or my dad aren’t prudes, but although I’ve had the guy not… upset but cross that...

Review: The Rise of Skywalker

So late to the game, and I don’t care much.

I remember driving around the University of Manitoba when it was announced on the radio that Disney had acquired the rights to Star Wars for a Billion Dollars, and were interested in making more movies. I had already graduated by this time from the University of Winnipeg, and I can’t remember why I was there, and now checking the timeline, I was working in EMS.

So the Force Awakens came out. Everyone generally liked it, even if we thought it was A...

2019 Round Up, 2020 Goals and All That

Wow, totally much, much later than anticipated. The short of it is, besides work, just before Christmas a family member hurt herself and I’ve kind of been available, but mostly I will be more available for that during my January vacation. Not going to say what or who, only that it’s not serious, they just need a bit of help and they’ll be right as rain in a few weeks.

Looking back at my goals at the beginning of last year was to have the sequel to Witchslayer’s Scion, Magus’ Gambit, off to...

Writing Round up 2019

NaNo’s pretty much over for another year – didn’t pass, and I cheated like mad; working on last year’s project as well as a short story as well as a new project.
The Short: Had an idea months ago; haven’t had time to work on it beyond a few scenes. Taking a break from the other two projects was just what this writer needed, it’s too long and a little tone deaf at times, but R.J. Hore is betaing it as we speak. I have another short I’d like to finish by year end, for an anthology, so goal...

NaNoWriMo 2019

So I’m not quite sonw updating today’s wordcount yet, but I’m almost at 30k with like a week to go. I’m on days as I write this, so I’ll have a little bit of more time to push to the end on my nights/days off.
The original goal was to finish last year’s project, Chimera, as well as get as much as I could into Rogue Healer 3, which really doesn’t have a good working title. I know it seems like I’m always busy, and I am – I’ve been recovering from this back injury and I finally got my...

Editing, NaNoWriMo, and thoughts on a certain Kitty Cat

Chilling out, handing out candy. Hating the fact that that I haven’t submitted my sequel to Witchslayer’s Scion to the publisher. I have less than twenty pages to go: and I haven’t finished it.

So Thanksgiving in Canada takes place in October, I’m told it’s because we have an earlier harvest season than the US but I always find it’s dueling with Halloween in popularity. We here in Manitoba had a heavy snowstorm that weekend, and apparently more than 100,000 people or homes were without power. I...

Cover Reveal – Dreams of Mariposa

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If you’d had asked me ten years ago if my second published novel was going to be a Steampunk-Horror, I’d probably have laughed.  Me likey a lot this one; granted if you looked at all on my Pinterest Page for the images I associated for Dreams of Mariposa, it goes right into creepsville from the get go.  This one looks soft and menacing at the same time. Fits the viewpoint character.

This one’s target demographic will be quite a bit different from Tower of Obsidian as well. Don’t get me wrong – I think if you like...

I moved! / When projects go awry

If you’ve been following along on Facebook, you’ll already know that I finally found a house and have moved to Elie, Mb. Not terribly far from the PMQ in Southport, as my job hasn’t changed. I’ve been house hunting for the last two years, and came close to building, because the area I wanted to live in didn’t have a ton of houses, and in any given year, not that many people were apt to move. Building would have been fun, but the least practical option, and I’m all about practicality now.

The...