Although I'm going to leave this blog up for the time being, I'll be posting big updates on my personal website's blog exclusively from now on. The hassle of maintaining multiple blogs was becoming too time consuming to keep at it.

Speaking of big updates, just yesterday I announced this: I've cancelled both my contracts with Dorchester Publishing ( ( Read more... )

You might have noticed that I haven't been very prolific here on my blog lately. Life has simply been too busy in 2010 and what little time I have available for writing has been spent writing fiction and my MLIS thesis paper.

You might also be beginning to notice that this isn't much of a blog post, either.

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Calling all GTA writers and dark literature fans: the DARKLIT FEST is taking place tomorrow, Saturday, November 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the McLaughlin Branch of the Oshawa Public Library. 19 amazing guests (including Guest of Honour Kelley Armstrong) are scheduled to attend and there will be panels, readings, pitch sessions (ChiZine ( Read more... )

With a new baby in the house, two books to write and edit for Leisure Books, a book to edit for Scholastic and a second to write to hopefully sell to them, and a dark literature festival to organize (not to mention a full time job, a wife to hang out with, a dog to walk and, oh yeah, a social life), you might assume I haven't had much time for ( Read more... )

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Like I said at the beginning of my last post, I've got some good news to share, so enough with the doom and gloom talk.

We're now a week into September, the month that my children's non-fiction book, Be a Writing Superstar, is being released by Scholastic Canada! And that means it has its own page on the Scholastic website. Not only can you see the ( Read more... )

I came here intending to share a few pieces of good news that I've been meaning to write about the past few weeks, but I was hit with a cold, hard slap as soon as I saw my previous blog post. Back in July my excitement was building for the release of the mass market paperback edition of Frozen Blood, with a beautiful new cover and many edits that ( Read more... )

The Dorchester Publishing paperback release of Frozen Blood is quickly approaching (time flies with a newborn in the house!) and it's now available for pre-order in the usual places, such as Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca and Chapters for the low, low price of ... well, it's different prices depending on where you live, but it's a deal in ( Read more... )

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Other than taking care of the usual baby stuff, this is how I spent my day yesterday:

*went to see Iron Man 2
*watched the 4 1/2 hour Lost series recap and finale
*completed both of the above activities while wearing the t-shirt below:

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