In 1984, after writing for newspapers and magazines in the United States and Canada for nearly twenty years, I did what most writers dream of doing, I published a novel. It was a thriller set in Toronto about a nomadic…
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Writing Sanibel: Or How An Old Dog Used A Unique Island and Technology to Learn New Tricks
Tagged with: Brian Vallee, Captiva, digital revoultion, do-it-yourself, Doubleday, Magic Man, Matinee Idol, print on demand, Ric Base, Sanibel, Sanibel Sunset Detective, self-publishing, The New York Times, The Strange
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Book Bashes With Mayors
It was a week for celebrating the Canadian publication of The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns. In Milton on a cold Sunday afternoon, friends and neighbors gathered to launch the novel. Milton mayor Gord Krantz, always a supporter, showed up to…
Tagged with: David Miller, Mayor Gord Krantz, Milton, P.J. O'Brien Irish Pub, Ron Base, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns
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Old Geezers Save The World (For Now)
Over the holiday I found myself back in Theatre Eight at the Varsity Cinema in downtown Toronto for the film version of John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. That theatre was the larger of the two auditoriums that constituted…
Tagged with: baby boomers, Caesar and Cleopatra, Christopher Plummer, Four Seasons Hotel, George Christy, Heavenly Bodies, Paul McCartney, Shakespeare, Shaw, Soldier, Spy, Stratford, Tailor, The Rolling Stones, The Tempest, Tinker, Tony Bennett, Toronto, U2, Varsity Theatre
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Ron Base Writes 