Day Eleven
Here’s me, Christopher Dean, his mother and sister at the Dartmouth Chapters store for a book signing. Chris is my third cousin. I think...
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- Oct 6, 2012
Day 10– The Tour Resumes
Wednesday and Thursday were the best days off. Wednesday, a sunny day in the mid 20s, we went with a friend in a Mustang convertible to...
- Oct 3, 2012
Day Seven
Ship Harbour Community Hall Thanks to the two lovely ladies who let us into the community hall and then stayed to talk with us for an...
- Oct 2, 2012
Day Six of Book Tour
Signing at Historic Properties on Day 5 It’s all about the people! Day six was a great day. We spent the morning putting up posters about...
- Sep 30, 2012
Day Four of Book Tour
Day four was a day of sitting in bookstores, smiling and signing books. I spent an hour and a half at a Chapters in a big box store and...
- Sep 29, 2012
Day 3 of tour
Bicentennial Theatre, Middle Musquodoboit (rhymes with Hobbit). I spent the morning trying to find out what happened to the shipment of...
- Sep 28, 2012
Day Two
Since There were no book-selling events scheduled on Day Two, David and I took the ferry from Dartmouth where we’re staying to Halifax...
- Sep 27, 2012
Day one of Book Tour
Thanks also to the lovely old English woman who bought a copy for her daughter. I thought at first that she was a little dotty. She...
- Sep 10, 2012
Book Tour
I’m so excited about my upcoming book tour in Nova Scotia (Sept. 26 to Oct. 8). Anyone reading this who lives in the Halifax area, I...
- Aug 27, 2012
New Book on Smashwords
I think this book is actually my favourite in the series. I also think it is the least commercially marketable. It begins with a rather...
- Aug 15, 2012
Creating a Book Cover
I’m editing Letters from a Belfast Gardener in preparation for publishing it on Smashwords. The next step is to prepare a cover. I’m...
- Aug 9, 2012
My first book on Amazon.com
I’m excited to announce that you can now buy a hard copy of my book The Serpentine Garden Path from Amazon.com This is a prequel to A...
- Jun 29, 2012
Writing with Integrity
Yesterday my poem “Fishing for Memories: was accepted to be published in an anthology of Planet Earth Poetry. That’s a group that meets...
- Jun 19, 2012
Buy Books!
If you live in Victoria, and you still haven’t read my book A Garden in the Wilderness, you can now get it at Munro’s Books, Canada’s...
- Jun 15, 2012
South Carolina, Here We Come
I just booked my flights for a round the continent trip in September and October. Instead of a vague dream, it’s that much closer to a...
- Jun 5, 2012
New Publication
Finally, I’ve e-published the second book in the Gardener series, The Gardener’s Wife. You can get a preview of it for free at...
- May 28, 2012
The Difficulty of Titles
As you know, my novel A Garden in the Wilderness was published by Borealis Press recently. It did not always have that title. I...
- May 21, 2012
The Spirituality of Writing
The longer I do not post a blog, the harder it is to write. And yet not to write adds to my depression. It’s raining outside, a good...
- Apr 3, 2012
Meeting people
It has been great getting positive feedback from readers of my book A Garden in the Wilderness. I don’t suppose that people who hate it...
