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Q&A’s with RendezVous Crime Cont’d

Continued from yesterday’s post, this is the second half of an interview with Allister Thompson, Editor at RendezVous Crime, who fired some pretty direct questions about my upcoming novel, The Tanglewood Murders. Q: While this is a crime novel and a mystery, the novel explores the mechanics of loss, guilt and grief through the perspective [...]

My novel, The Tanglewood Murders, will be released in just a few more weeks. I thought I’d share a portion of an interview I had with Allister Thompson, Editor at RendezVous Crime. Q: You are known as a poet. What compelled you to choose crime fiction as your first long fiction endeavour? A: I’ve never [...]

Ode to the Adverb

When it comes to grammar, the one thing that really aggravates me is the self-appointed grammarian, the person without a teaching certificate or appropriate PhD who can’t resist correcting other people’s use of words. Language is fluid. It lives and breathes. It changes and evolves. Anyone going through life with a rule-book in their pocket [...]

Novel writing is certainly an adventure. It is an experience replete with highs and lows – excitement is followed by frustration, depression, and excitement again. In order to keep the lows to a minimum, while working on the early drafts, understanding the basic structure of a novel helps a lot. What’s that? Structure to a [...]

I had an interesting discussion this week after I happened to mention my favourite novelist is Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. But you’re a mystery writer, she said. Am I? Am I really? Certainly there is no reason why a [...]

Haven’t been online too much lately. The main reason is I’m about armpit deep in the last series of edits for The Tanglewood Murders. Working with a professional editor is a unique experience. If a publisher is taking on your book, you’re going to go through this experience too. If you’re self-publishing your book, you [...]

Hi everyone, I just finished the first trailer for The Tanglewood Murders, which will be on the bookshelves in October. (But why wait? You can pre-order it now. Some links to your favourite bookstores are on the link at the bottom.) Click here for the larger version. It’s amazing what one writer can do in [...]

If you are an emerging writer, congratulations! There has never been a better time to be a writer than right here, right now. I have to say this because of all the doom and gloom that is being spread about the uncertain future of publishing, journalism, newspapers, magazines, poetry, fiction, and anything else that involves [...]

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If you think the future of publishing belongs to iPad, think again. This video was posted on YouTube by Dorling Kindersley (a UK publisher) , and I think it is absolutely brilliant. Wanted to share it with you. Enjoy!!

This is a video I made for a YouTube / Facebook project, 100 Poems in 100 Days, created by Mark Ruddick from the University of Exeter in the UK, and involving poets and spoken word artists from around the world. I thought it was a pretty cool project and was very happy to participate.

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