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,…
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…
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…
June Book Signing My book signing at Indigo, Richmond Hill went quite well on Saturday, June 28. Signed copies of Shadow Song and Recipes of a Dumb Housewife are now available at: Amazon BooksBarnes and Noble online BookLore, Orangeville, Ontario Borders Books online Chapters, Barrie, Ontario Chapters online Coles, Orangeville, Ontario Coles, Newmarket, Ontario Indigo, Richmond Hill, Ontario Millennia Books, Hanover, Ontario W.H. Smith online And the Angels Sang My anthology of short, speculative fiction…
I’ve made great progress with my upcoming anthology, And the Angels Sang. Edits are completed, and I’ve updated the format and typesetting to reflect a fresher, more modern approach which, hopefully, Chapters/Indigo will find enticing. I’ve kept the original cover art of which all of you seemed to be enamoured (my favourite as well, and the remaining vestiges of the original oil painting by Kelly Stephens), and redesigned the cover to reflect current trends. I’m…