First: I want to apol­o­gize. I normally post the full cover (front, spine, back), but… I missed the window to down­load that from the publisher =/. Second, someone in comments asked about sample chap­ters — and I real­ized that it is, in fact, the end of March, and Cast in Blood is coming out on the 28th of April. So: I have sample chap­ters, and the regular front-only cover. Much of my day is focused on my youngest at the moment, but as he gets used to being at home, he is much, much happier than he was during his long hospital stay — and that makes things easier for me. It gives me more of my brain-space back; it gives me room to think about things other than my youngest. … Continue reading →

Days after I made my previous post, the rehab hospital extended my son’s stay, to the 20th of February. We were … not over­joyed, but aware that Physio is neces­sary for the fore­see­able future. When we’d been given the discharge date of 29th January, we were told that this was immutable, that there were OHIP rules, etc. etc. That they couldn’t extend. He wasn’t walking at that point — and still isn’t — and that meant we would need to figure out how to get him into the house. (Our house is an old semi-detached that was built at the turn of the century — the last one. 1900s. It has a tiny, city lawn. This means that we can’t build a ramp from the side­walk to the top … Continue reading →