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.

A different kind of novel.

Allow me to introduce you to The Major's wife. Susan marries a wounded army officer at the end of WW1. He is secretly gay and brings his male lover to live with them. She tries to end the marriage but he will not allow it.  She has become his cover She attempts to murder him but fails. She embarks upon her own escapades. In a divorce attempt she is labelled The Wanton Woman by the national press. There is much more.

Kilua Morning.

The symphony of the Kilua morning

Strikes up, when sun’s celestial journey

 brings the dawn light to the heights of Moana Kia.

Mynah birds begin the symphony

With shrill, three tone notes.

Upon their cue, a multitude of Hawaiian pigeons

Fill the air with monotone cooing.

The rhythm is the waves crashing ashore

with the slow beat’s of percussion.

Trees add their soft tones of foliage gently

Played by the whispering trade winds.

Plumeria and tulip trees are joined

by palms and banyans.

A host of multi-coloured flowers

Listen to the sounds with receptive petals.

This is the symphony of a Kilua morning. 

Today i completed my new young adult novel " Enigma" My main critic said

"Very very good, the story has everything" I'm looking forward to some Hawaiian sun, and to leave the snow behind.

I shall be offline for a couple of weeks, for when i go away i leave the world of electronics behind and write poetry with an old fashioned pencil.

When i return i shall introduce you to another of my books. Aloha

Hello cyber world! 24 Hours in Hell is one of my books of short stories.

It contains 32 different works including murder, humour, crime, romance, and an account of the massive earthquake and tsunammi  expected to visit the West Coast.

The title refers not to the religious version of hell, but the 24 hours endured by a US soldier lost and alone in the Iraqi desert.

I attended a writers group last night and read from my work in progress novel, ENIGMA. The group desired to hear more than the alotted two pages.

I have five more sleeps before flying to the magic islands of Hawaii. While there i shall sharpen my poetry pencil.


 

This is my first published novel. (I Never Saw My Father Smile)

The story came to me in a dream, so vivid, that I got out of bed and wrote down the bones of the story.

 It has sold out both printings. I have re-worked and re edited the story, and will be available as an electronic book within the next few weeks. It will become available from http://a2zbooks.ca

 A number of people have told me the work is so powerful it should be made into a movie.

A psychologist told me the transformation from sane to insane is classic.

Day two

 I'm working daily on a novel with the working title, ENIGMA. It is about a Canadian sailor,  seriously wounded by a torpedo in the North Atlantic inWW2. The reader will not know if Matt, is actually alive or dead until the last paragraph.

Hello world! This is my first ever blog. I am a self
published author of a number of novels, a book of humour, one of short stories.

Also co-author of "Lost in the Sand" a story brought from Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Talk to me!