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Back from Windsor and catching up

by | May 10, 2007 | appearances, comics, writing news

Last week’s Windsor author tour was a smashing success, but I’ve been so busy catching up on various WIPs that I haven’t had a moment to post about it. But all that changes now . . . I hit the road last Tuesday and arrived in LaSalle, just south of...

Did I mention . . .

by | Apr 12, 2007 | comics, writing news

. . . that Max Finder Mystery Collected Casebook Volume 2 is out and available in bookstores? Didn’t think so. But it is and I’m totally excited about this new collection of ten more great you-solve-it mysteries. And I’m not the only one. Canadian...

Heading to the Highlands

by | Mar 31, 2007 | appearances, comics, literacy, writing news

Whitchurch Highlands, that is. I’m on the road again this Tuesday, taking the Max Finder Mystery tour out to Stouffvile Ontario to visit with the students of Whitchurch Highlands Public School. I’ll be giving three presentations to over 180 students, which...

Video games as thematic device? You bet!

by | Mar 25, 2007 | gaming

Other than the odd web-distraction game, I haven’t written about gaming much in here lately, but I have most certainly been busy playing them. I’m always a bit behind the curve on video games, but that’s out of a choice not to plunk down $500 on a...

Escape from the land of rewrites

by | Mar 23, 2007 | works in progress

I love rewriting my work – honestly I do! Some writers hate it, but I get a kick out of tweaking my words, tightening sentences and catching any errors I missed with the first draft. And that’s what I’ve been doing for the last week. I mentioned...

How did I get here?

by | Mar 21, 2007 | gaming, life

I’m working – honest! But I did take some time this morning to play Grow, which Wired’s game blog calls: a surreal animated Choose Your Own Adventure. And they’re right! Start with a seed (or is it an egg?) and make choices to make it grow....