Best Reads of 2016

I feel like talking about books. [Try not to fall over in a dead faint….] I’m putting together a list of the books I’d like to find under the tree for Christmas, and it occurs to me I’m probably missing a bunch that I’d really like. I’ve started off with Zadie Smith, Ivan Coyote, AmiContinue reading “Best Reads of 2016”

Book Review: The Accidental Alchemist

It’s been pretty quiet around here lately, as I have been working on the next book — and it’s a doozy. I’m about 80,000 words into the second draft, and I can safely say it is pretty wildly different than anything I’ve ever written. But everyone knows that a good writer has to be aContinue reading “Book Review: The Accidental Alchemist”

Festive Flash Fiction Alphabetical Advent Calendar

For the month of December, my goal is to post a piece of festive flash fiction here to the blog every day. Twenty-five stories, each 250 words or fewer — a little fictional festivity to brighten the darkest month of the year. For readers, I offer these stories as a moment of peace within aContinue reading “Festive Flash Fiction Alphabetical Advent Calendar”

Signal Boost: Sending Support to Indian Authors

Local poet Fauzia Rafique has put out a call for all interested members of the arts to support Indian writers who are standing up against intolerence and violence in the Indian Arts Community. She has the support of more than 60 writers, artists, academics and activists from Surrey and around the Lower Mainland. Find outContinue reading “Signal Boost: Sending Support to Indian Authors”

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