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Launch of the 2025 Writers’ Circle Anthology, September 24, 5:30-7:30 pm
Join us authors at an event at the NOTL Library to hear readings from the compilation of short stories and poetry. Refreshments will be provided. For more details, see https://allevents.in/niagara-on-the-lake/anthology-launch/200028833824136
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Learn about creative writing in Queenston, Ontario, September 27-28!
The NOTL Writers’ Circle will be participating in Ontario’s Culture Days at the lovely South Landing Inn in the historic town of Queenston, where we will be offering various activities for adults and kids. Meet NOTL writers and hear examples of short literary works; then try your hand at writing under their guidance. Writers will…
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Motive Crime and Mystery Festival, June 27-29
I attended this event at Victoria College, University of Toronto, on Sunday June 29. It was a lovely day, and I had a good time. The highlight for me was the panel discussion entitled Trope and Dagger: Playing (and Breaking) the Rules in Mystery Novels. The panelists were Margaret Cannon, Karen Sullivan, andz Gregg Hurwitz.…
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Motive Crime and Mystery Festival, June 27-29, 2025
I attended this event on Sunday, June 29. It was a beautiful day, and I had a good time. The highlight for me was a panel discussion entitled Trope and Dagger: Playing (and Breaking) the Rules in Mystery Novels. Panelists were Margaret Cannon, Karen Sullivan, and Gregg Hurwitz. My takeaways included the following: “Come into…
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Come See us at ‘Books at the Barn’ in Niagara-on-the-Lake!
Once again the Niagara-on-the-Lake Writers’ Circle will provide an opportunity to meet with local authors on the day of the Strawberry Festival here in town. I will host Books at the Barn in front of my red barn at 322 Simcoe Street–across the street from St. Andrews Church–on Saturday, June 21st, from 9am to 3pm. …
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NOTL Writers’ Circle will be represented at the Reif Mother’s Day Market.
You can get my latest novel there, Ignorance is a Pleasant Evil.
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Salon des Refusés
I am attending a public event on Thursday, March 20, where I and nine other local authors will read from our works. It is to be held at the St Catharines Artists Centre, 354 St Paul Street, from 7 to 9 pm. The get-together is patterned after the 1863 Salon in Paris, where the Impressionists…
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Latest novel is now available!
You can now buy Ignorance is a Pleasant Evil in paperback on Amazon. It will be available from Ingram Spark starting March 28. The eBook version will be published shortly. This is the seventh detective novel in the series The ABC Files. It features a new detective, Beth Philips, who is given the task of…
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A New ABC Files Mystery is on its way!
The new mystery is titled Ignorance is a Pleasant Evil. It is set partly in Nova Scotia, and partly in Alberta, in the Athabasca Oil Sands. As usual, the partners in the Cameron and Carroll detective agency, Hamish and Sean, play starring roles. In addition, a new comer, Beth Phillips (who appeared in a previous volume, Memories of…
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Crime Writers of Canada (CWC)
I decided to join the organization after attending a conference in Toronto that they organized. The high point for me was a moderated discussion between Otto Penzler, a long time editor and book seller of mysteries and crime fiction, and Margaret Cannon, reviewer of mysteries for the Globe and Mail. They discussed 19th century mysteries,…