I’ve been absent from the writer blog, in part because I have been struggling to actually get back to writing. I am writing again, but not at the same pace I was before November 8th of last year. We still have a number of doctors who have a continuing interest in my youngest: cardiologist, nephrologist, endocrinologist, neurologist and neurosurgeon (these are two separate doctors). We are still not certain what caused the high blood pressure, and he is still taking multiple medications to make sure it doesn’t happen again — but the anxiety always eats part of my brain — the mom part, which has been quite loud. For November and December, my brain was all mother-brain. Actually, while my son was in different hospitals, that was still the case. We … Continue reading
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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
I started this post in July of 2025, but clearly July has disappeared beneath my feet. July was the month of CAC replacement and readjustment. Which technically started in June. 2025 has been the year of home repair. We live in a house that was built at the turn of the 1900s (I almost said century, but that could easily apply to the 2000s, which would not be accurate). I once dreamed of owning a home that wasn’t subject to landlords and their need to get rid of tenants to raise rents, among other things. And yes, a home doesn’t have landlords; it does require banks, and if you don’t pay your mortgage the end result is the same, but they can’t arbitrarily attempt … Continue reading
The Wild Road should now be available for order or purchase (or special order), in the format of your choice. The exception, sadly, is audible.com. The audiobook has propagated to other retailers, but audible.com still doesn’t show it. I don’t know when it will go live. From my end, the only thing that’s waiting is audible.com approval. Both the hardcover and the paperback should be available for pre-order and order, as will the ebook at all of the vendors. This is the second novel in The Burning Crown. It’s shorter than the first book (which was 304k words), but short is offered in a West context. I had really hoped to have the book available earlier, but end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 … Continue reading
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