It seems like it’s been a long time coming, but today is the day. On the path to publication, Wild Horses: Running Free (Orca) nearly broke my heart a few times. When I began writing the book several years ago, I skipped blithely forward, thinking it was going to be Read more…
I have a newsletter. Sometimes I post things to it, though not as often as I should. I did one yesterday. I think it was a super fun one. If you’d like to see it, it’s here. Among other things, I write about the time (Autumn, 2023) BC Bookworld wrote Read more…
Setting in fiction is one of those topics those of us with fiction on the brain talk about pretty endlessly. What makes it? How do you create it? What do you do with it or without it? For some of us, setting is everything (eg: Ray Bradbury in “There Will Read more…
I’m about as excited about the upcoming publication of Dead West, the third book in the Endings series, as I have been about any of the more than dozen books I have written. That debut will happen on September 5th. In anticipation of that, the electronic version of Endings, the Read more…
LA Weekly has named me as one of their “Top 15 Authors to Read for 2023,” which strikes me as astonishing. (There are so many great authors out there! ) I am happy about it, though. And if LA Weekly says it, it must be true, right? Grab one of Read more…
I’m much too candid and tell too many secrets on a recent episode the SinC Writer’s podcast. Interviewer Julie Hennrikus did too good a job! (Spoiler alert: if you listen long enough, I cry.) You can find the podcast on your favorite app, or download it here.
All of the social medias are reminding me that today it is four years since “Terminal City,” my contribution to the Akashic anthology Vancouver Noir, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story. So much about that is worth remembering. First of all, if you haven’t had the chance Read more…
Like a lot of people, I’ve been having some fun playing with artificial intelligence via ChatGPT. Most recently, I asked it to recommend books for people who liked my 2021 novel Endings, which is now the first of the Endings series. The third book in that series, Dead West, will Read more…
Almost everyone who has known me while I’ve been writing novels has heard me say these words. I’ve said them in lectures and in conversations at cocktail parties. I’ve said them to hopeful editing clients and to mildly interested would-be writers on the tennis court. “Write the book that’s in Read more…
I can’t always keep all of the Kindle and Amazon designations straight. They are meant to call attention to selected titles. And I’m happy when it happens, of course. I’m just not always exactly sure what it means, other than readers who might have missed the book in hardcover in Read more…