New Shop

Oh my god you guys, it’s snowing again. Oh. Except snow is normal this time of year, in this location. Man, is that ever strange.
Everything is frosted and clean again and all that work we did, shovelling the truck free of snow after the plow came by and burried it up to the axels, has [...]

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OK Canada!

I was a little surprised to discover I couldn’t get a copy of my own book when it came out on Dec 24, and so were a few of you.
Well, I got good news from my editor today. If you’re in Canada and you wanted a copy of Tenth Man, you can get it [...]

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Lost Community

I had to come home early from Swing Street. What stared off as a niggling dislike of the place quickly turned into revulsion and I left inside an hour of my arrival.
I knew the palce had been sold, that happened while I still lived in town, and I knew it would be different from when [...]

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On the Agenda

Today, I will be spending a fair bit of time writing at the coffee shop. Swing Street is not exactly known for its great coffee anymore, but it is the place where I started life as a barista. Even though the folks I worked for sold the business and it’s changed a lot, I still [...]

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Today, In Brief

-Big breakfast, big lunch
-Half the day at the hot springs spotting mountain goats, elk and deer on the road to and from the place.
- Cold wet feet, much soothed by applications of coffee and doughnuts.
-4.5 hours of intensive thinking about writing process, the kind of writer I am and the kind of writer I want [...]

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The past is never as dead as you think it is

Adam and I went out for a walk this afternoon. It was snowing and these are the streets we grew up on, so we went out and felt nostalgic while the world was muffled and white.
It’s -17 which is not as cold as it sounds. I managed just fine withotu a hat or scarf or [...]

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In and over and out

We made it in, despite prognostications of doom, despite all the weather could musters, and despite having to be at the gate by five a.m. We arrived safely, hungover, hungry, and tired, but we were welcomed anyway.
This will not be a long post as I am on dial up and everything takes ten minutes to [...]

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Off!

We are off to a friend’s place for Christmas cheer and we’re pathetically grateful for their invitation, too.
In my fridge right now there is one large sweet potato, one potato, one head of cabbage, some pre-packaged udon noodles and a butt-load of condiments. This paucity of tasties occured right on schedule. See, we expected [...]

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Oh Hey

I woke up to discover my book is out this morning. It’s a little late for a Christmas gift, but if you’re in a pinch for Twelfth Night or Kwanzaa you can lay your hands on a copy of it by clicking here.
*edit: Fellow Prizm inmate Hayden Thorne’s new book Masks: Evolution is now up [...]

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Winter Break

Adam and I will be officially on holidays for the next eight days. I probably won’t be blogging much, though I may blog a little, and I promise a good series of blog posts when I return on the first of January. These will include: What I learned about publishing this year, the annual published [...]

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