Virtual Book Tour

During this next week and the month of August I’ll be on a virtual book tour in Canada, the UK and the US. Virtual book tours are becoming more and more common for authors, both those published conventionally and those who are independent. It’s a more world-friendly way for authors to make guest appearances, receive Q&A through blog comments, and gain greater exposure. This, my first virtual book tour, launches at the site of Toronto,…

Anthology Approaching Completion

So I’ve had my head attached to my computer for several weeks straight now, finalizing the content of my upcoming anthology, And the Angels Sang. Last week I decided I needed to have interior illustrations (partly I think out of paranoia over this collection of short stories), and while over the years I have created several water colour and pen & ink paintings and sketches, certainly there were gaps, even with a few guest illustrators…

Anthology Nearing Completion

And the Angels Sang is an anthology of short, speculative fiction that is the result of 25 years of writing. I thought I had the document ready to upload to my printer, but at the last minute decided to add illustrations to the text. The result of that has been an interesting journey. Some of the stories were previously published along with illustrations of my own, and finding the originals of those illustrations has been…

Available for Pre-Order — And the Angels Sang

In this my fifth book, I present a provocative anthology of speculative short fiction in And the Angels Sang. Some stories have appeared previously in publications such as On Spec and Sword & Sorceress X, while some make their debut. There are 17 stories, from dystopia to utopia, written over the past 25 years. I chose to divide the anthology into two sections to easily separate the more fantastical from the speculative, naming each section…