Finally received a print copy of The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to the Movies. As always, there is a moment of sheer, head-shaking amazement and delight when you hold a new novel in your hands for the first time. I…
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Novel In Hand: The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to the Movies…
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Evolution of a Novel: How Death at the Savoy Came to Be
Susan Walker, former editor of Quill and Quire, who also served as the Toronto Star’s book editor, and no slouch when it comes to all things literary, has written a wonderful piece about how my new novel (with Prudence Emery),…
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FINALLY, A BOOK!
Death at the Savoy arrived on my doorstep early this morning. It’s been a long but mostly delightful journey getting here, in close company with my old friend and collaborator, Prudence Emery. For an author there is nothing quite like…
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The Legend Was a Lady: Remembering Martha Henry
To be honest, I didn’t know quite what to make of Martha Henry when I first met her on the set of White Light, a movie that I had written and was co-producing. After all, this was…Martha Henry! Even back…
Tales From the Tour: Old Girl Friends, Movie Moguls, Sad Stories, and a Blind Raccoon
If I’ve learned anything the past couple of months it is this: Do not do a book signing with a blind raccoon. Trouper is the raccoon in question. Kyle Miller has written a children’s book devoted to Trouper’s adventures. She…
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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…
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The End
That was how the summer ended. The summer of hushed ICUs and sombre doctors trying to be hopeful as they delivered hopeless news about my friend Brian. A summer of sitting at his beside inspecting curious tubes coming out of various…
The Brockville Boys
The Brockville Boys, from left: Gord Johnston, Dave Cody, Ron Base, Calvin Prescott. The old home town is just not the same. The apartment where my brother and I lived above the Bank of Commerce at 98 King St.,…
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The Chicago Story
I met her in Detroit a long time ago at a party for author Harold Robbins. Michelle—although she called herself Mickie then—was one of the models hired for the occasion to promote Robbins as the real life incarnation of the irresistible stud he…
The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns (Sort Of)
These days I’m obsessed with finishing my new novel, “The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns.” My brother Ric got me into this a couple of years ago. He is the president of the Sanibel Island Chamber of Commerce. He introduced me…
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