Getting it Right

It isn’t easy, you know. Getting it right, that is. And even when you do you start second-guessing yourself, finding some minor flaw here, something to tweak there, and sooner or later you’re wondering why on earth you thought that ‘thing’ — whatever that thing is — just simply isn’t good enough for anyone to see. Or at least that’s how my universe unfolds. The perpetual edit. For now, however, I think I have Version…

Review: Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden

As usual, it would seem I’m in a minority with this romantic tale of Chiyo-become-Sayuri, the peasant girl who became geisha.Set amid the backdrop of Depression Era and World War II Japan, the story takes you from Chiyo’s fishing village, peasant beginnings to the opulent, harsh and at the same time frivolous world of Gion, where Chiyo transforms into a highly trained geisha known as Sayuri, and from there into the bitterly harsh realities of…

Shadow Song Now Available at Amazon!

Shadow Song has now hit the Amazon website and is available for order both through our own website (which will get you a special promotional price until September 30, as well as a signed copy), and Amazon’s (should you wish to take care of member discounts and promotions). We’d love to hear your reviews of the novel, which can be posted on this blog, under condition we are allowed to use your review for promotional…

Cookbook Now Available at Chapters!

At long last, and after some considerable consternation, without any support or assistance from my POD (print on demand publisher — Lulu), Recipes of a Dumb Housewife is now available through Chapters/Indigo/Coles. My huge thanks to Anne Garner, cookbook buyer at Chapters, for her considerable assistance and understanding! Without her this could never have happened.

What’s With the Lulu Discussion You Ask?

It would seem my experience with Lulu Publishing has soured a bit. It would seem distibution through them is not what it is puported to be, and after some considerable time waiting for a reasonable answer, one of Lulu’s staff have threatened to shut down forum discussion of the Chapters/Indigo distribution problem.In short, I’ve been threatened with censorship.Nothing raises my hackles and sets me searching for my trusty sword faster than injustice. And now that…