I’m giving away 5 free copies of The Serpentine Garden Path at Goodreads on October 1st. Check it out at Goodreads. All you have to do is write a review of the book after you’ve read it. And I’m not the only one. You can get lots of free books at Goodreads. And The Gardener’s Wife is available for pre-order now as a Kindle ebook through Amazon.com. The official launch date is October 1st. So, if you have a Kindle, and 2.99US, and you’ve always wanted to read this book, now’s

It has been a long time since I blogged!  I have been busy finishing my final novel in The Pleasure Gardener’s Companion series. It is titled BACK TO THE GARDEN. It takes place in Nova Scotia in 1795-96, from the time that the Deans’ ship, en route to New York, is boarded by the British and taken to Halifax harbour. It chronicles their first year in the wilderness near Upper Musquodoboit. In November I sent the first chapter and an outline to a publisher in Ottawa. On January