For June’s guest author, I am pleased to welcome back the Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer to discuss his latest novel, The Oppenheimer Alternative. Robert joined us in 2017 to discuss his writing career and his book Quantum Night. He is the only...
Unsubscribing from an Increasingly Subscription-Based World
Sometimes I blog about topics that aren't about writing, like the design posts or the Texting or Email for Work? post. The following is the result of the trial run I conceived in November 2019 and started in January 2020. The test involved unsubscribing from an...
Short Stories and Transmedia
We are over two months into the pandemic self-isolation. Here in Edmonton, the government has initiated phase one of reopening the economy. Personally, I will continue to wait and stay indoors. Life isn't too different from my regular work schedule. I have a home...
The Smell
Being locked in a bunker as the last survivor isn’t easy to cope with, especially if there’s a otherworldly cleaver-armed monstrosity on the other side of the door. How long can one last in a room of rotting flesh? The Smell is May’s short story that brings you into a...
Ann Charles, Mystery Author of Devil Days in Deadwood
For May we welcome USA Today bestselling author Ann Charles from Northern Arizona who writes mixed-genre mystery novels that are character-driven. She has written multiple contemporary, award-winning, novels in multiple series. When she is not writing fiction, she...
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2019 Finalists/Winners
Early this year Finalists and Winners were announced for The Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2019. I am pleased to say that The White Hand, a Rutherford Manor Novel was a finalist! Below is a link to the list of the 2019 FINALISTS and WINNERS in The Wishing Shelf Book...
Fire, Pain, & Ruin Launches
I am pleased to announce that Fire, Pain, & Ruin: A Rutherford Manor Novel has launched in ebook! Currently it is available on Amazon Kindle. The preorders taken through the Rutherford Manor website will be processed once printing shipments can be made through the...
Six Weeks into A New Routine
In Alberta, we are six weeks into a new routine, thanks to the pandemic lockdown. For a lot of people, this has been a difficult adjustment period. On a personal level, the changes haven't been too out of the ordinary for me. I was homeschooled up to the end of junior...
Option Three
Questioning mortality can be a slippery slope. Thoughts can betray you. Your mind can become quicksand, pulling you into dark depths of the consciousness that you cannot escape from. How far into the self is one willing to satisfy curiosity? Option Three is April’s...