But enough about me...

A great review/interview in the Vancouver Sun: "Last of the Independents: Two Mysteries in One". Reviewer Tracy Sherlock calls Mike, the main character, "Plucky and bold" and "a tad unhinged," and says "Crime novel fans will enjoy this one."

This weekend was busy with book promotion. I visited stores on Vancouver Island, including Tanner's in Sidney and a couple of Chapters locations. The staff was terrific. Saturday I was at the West Vancouver Library with E.R. Brown, Owen Laukkanen and Robin Spano for a reading and talk. Yesterday was WORD Vancouver, and I manned the CWC booth for a couple of hours with Dietrich Kalteis and Glynis Whiting.

I have a couple of new stories coming out, one in an established Canadian literary journal, one in the premiere issue of an American crime and noir magazine.

"August in the Pines" is in the latest issue of Subterrain. I'd describe it as a "geriatric Badlands," told in epistolary form. 

"Next to Nothing" is in the debut issue of Dark Corners, a new American noir magazine edited by C.T. McNeely. It opens with a private investigator following a trail of blood into a dive hotel.

 And now I have marking to get back to. Thanks for reading this.