Pic is the first draft for the cover, The final has a KW truck in the foreground Having worked the Vancouver waterfront  and in the trucking business I had first hand knowledge of the crime which went on. So this was an easy novel for me to write.

I'm a little behind with my blogging, i have been sufferering from a severe head cold and the Gout both at the same time. However on May 2nd I visited two schools with the raise a reader programme It was a very successful day giving me tremendous pleasure. Needless to say, i did very little new writing with my head feeling rather like a soccer ball. Sales of my new novel  Union Boss are going quite well.

It has been a very sad day. We had to put our dog down due to her suffering. For the first time since i left the farm many years ago I dug a deep grave.  I dug it for her in my back yard. It is our plan to plant an ornamental tree over top of her. When I worked on the farm this kind of thing was commonplace. In my senior years i have mellowed, and find the event highly disturbing. No longer will we be greeted at the front door with a loving creature bringing us one of her doggy toys.

I will now introduce my face to the the blog reading world. It has been a busy last few days for me, my new novel UNION BOSS is back from the printers. I'm already getting good reports from the people who pre-orderd the book. My new young adult novel ENIGMA has returned from the editor I have to make a few adjustments then burn it onto CD
I have begun a sequel to my young adult novel, Black House.

Home again.

Snow and high winds, what a welcome after the balmy Hawaiian clime. Roll on Okanagan Springtime. Allow me to introduce you to my novel, The Majors Wife The protagonist Susan, marries an army Major injured in WW1 Things soon begin to go sour when she discovers he is gay. He uses her as his cover for his activities. She cannot rid herself of him, and tries a number of times to murder him, but her plans fail. Susan has several romantic interludes. One lands her the title of the (wanton woman) in the national press.

Spring has sprung, new life all around me. My new novel Union boss is doing well, getting good reports. my co-author of Lost in the sand left yesterday for Iraq to visit her ailing mother.

Lots of happenings since the last blog . awarded a literary  prize. new young adult story recomended for printing And my newest novel UNION BOSS received from the printers.