Please enjoy this excerpt from the literary novel, Doxology. Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including $450 in Amazon gift cards, a Kindle Fire, and 5 autographed copies of the book.   Sunday is Vernon’s wash day. And though he has enough money to buy [...]

As I started at my blank post I wondered what in the world I would write about this week and then it came to me – writer’s block. A lot of us are convinced it exists and use it to reason out why we spent our day avoiding our own imagination but I disagree, I [...]

JEWEL Since I was a young girl Jewel has been an idol of mine. With her beautiful voice and personal lyrics to match she has been an absolute inspiration as I was able to relate to a lot of her songs from the very first time I heard them and connect with them each differently [...]

Even if you don’t call yourself a writer you’ve written. An essay, a poem, a tweet or a status update on Facebook, maybe a comment or two in reply to one.  And everything is stored online for practically the world to see – with or without privacy settings that make it impossible for your mother [...]

The obvious catch to me is the writer isn’t making anything for each book that is read and as an author this troubles me for a few reasons. The main being obvious – I want to get paid, the second is – I want to support an author financially to promote and improve book sales, [...]

Are you too tired to think? Have the sniffles A lunch date? Books to read? We all do. At one time or another we could fill a book with excuses as to why we didn’t accomplish what we wanted to. I was about to succumb to life and the restriction of time permitted to blog [...]

Being Canadian is important to me for so many reasons, one of which being January 27th as it’s a day we mark to celebrate literacy and all it’s worth. Being a writer of course I need readers so celebrate the essence of words and the importance of our education system in supporting ensuring a great [...]

Like Sidney Crosby to hockey, Stephen King to best selling books and James Cameron to incredible movies, most of us have a passion for something but it’s not enough to find it, a lot of us have to live it. And if we’re told we can’t due to a concussion, disability, etc it can be [...]

Every farm needs three things to grow into a bountiful being, even my novel Arm Farm needed the seed, water and sunlight to blossom into sinewy arms which grew cases and possible case solvers. Just as each flower, animal and vegetable grow into something of value, worth and substance, Arm Farm needed all three elements [...]

I met Terry through her offer of a review ebook copy of Deadly Secrets on Facebook which both taught us a lot. In my haste I didn’t realize I was about to accept the Barnes and Noble Nook “gift” version and quickly discovered their ebooks are not available for download in Canada and, so appears, [...]