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The first thing we know for sure about Michael is that he joined an emigration scheme in 1763. A man with the improbable name of Count...
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- Jul 26, 2017
#booklaunchedmonton
When Elisheva’s son Jochanan is beheaded, she is stricken with grief and consumed by anger against those who have killed him. She wants...
- Jul 19, 2017
#book launch
My latest novel is being launched into the world this Monday, July 24 at 7pm at First Metropolitan United Church. It’s the first-person...
- Jun 19, 2017
#am blogging
At the end of her life, Elisheva tells her story. It’s about anger at injustice and grief at the death of loved ones. And it’s about so...
- May 29, 2017
The Book of Elisheva
My latest novel, The Book of Elisheva, is available now at Amazon. It will soon be available in hard copy form from Lighthouse Christian...
- May 16, 2017
Exploring Canadian Roots (6)
World War I: The Last Post The monument known as the Brooding Soldier stands a few kilometres outside of Ypres, Belgium, marking the site...
- May 13, 2017
Exploring Canadian Roots (5)
The Great War a.k.a. World War I We visited a lot of war memorials, museums and cemeteries and I am proud to say the Canadian ones are...
- May 10, 2017
Exploring Canadian Roots (4)
It was a beautiful sunny day here in Dieppe. Not a good day to take pictures with a tablet because you are shooting blind. So I have few...
- May 9, 2017
Exploring Canadian Roots(3)
Saturday Champlain at HonfleurThe subtitle is a pun of David’s, of course, which requires that you shorten Samuel and know the French for...
- May 8, 2017
Exploring Canadian Roots (2)
Juno Beach Centre on VE-Day At first we just thought the French were just trying to annoy us by making today a statutory holiday....
- May 5, 2017
Exploring Canadian Roots
Jacques Cartier at St. Malo With the exception of the Vikings, (more on that subject in a later post), Jacques Cartier captained the...
- Apr 23, 2017
My Guest Blog on The Story Ape
In 2006, I finally listened to that inner voice telling me to do what I’d always wanted to do– write novels. Then there was the question...
- Mar 11, 2017
Read an E-book Week (last day)
Review an E-book There are so many millions of books out there. How does anyone find one? Browsing, of course, but then when you find one...
- Mar 10, 2017
Read an E-book Week (4)
I have a lot of friends who are writers too, and for you I’d just like to say that you should publish your book on Smashwords. It’s...
- Mar 8, 2017
Read an E-book Week (3)
Yes, it’s me again. Yes, I am going to post a blog every day this week because if you’re like me you meant to purchase a book but you...
- Mar 7, 2017
Read an E-book Week (2)
How to download a Smashwords book to a Kindle reader Don’t be held captive by Amazon. Sure it’s more convenient to buy e-books direct...
- Mar 6, 2017
Read an e-Book Week
My new book The Loyalist is 50% off this week as part of the promotion “Read an E-book Week” on Smashwords. Smashwords is an e-book...
- Mar 1, 2017
The Loyalist is here!
[This book is available now at your local ebook retailer or smashwords!] On November 26, 1782, the Nova Scotia Gazette Weekly Chronicle...
- Feb 28, 2017
The Siege of Ninety Six
In the book The Loyalists at Kings Mountain, it is written that Michael Isham “evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H....
- Feb 27, 2017
A Civil Battle at King’s Mountain
In many ways the American Revolution was as much a civil war as a revolution. Not every colonist took up arms against the British; many...
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