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The Sunset website is starting to produce results that I hadn’t expected.  The most interesting thing is I have had people ask where they can buy DARK SUNSET and my other books.

Right now the only two books of mine that are available are the travel guides for Toronto and New York.  In the United States they are available on Amazon, in Canada they are available in Indigo Bookstores and online at their site.

Meanwhile, over at the Sunset Michigan website I keep adding new material every couple of days.  If you haven’t checked it out in the last few days take a look.

Two things I am really excited about are the book jackets for DARK SUNSET and BLOODY SUNSET.  They are really great and I thank art director extraordinaire Barry Lisbon for creating them.  You’ll find them over at the Sunset website under ‘The Books’ link.

Right now, I am 25,000 words into my new novel — the first in a new series featuring two new characters.  It’s called HAIR TRIGGER.  I describe it as a wacked-out version of Moby Dick with lots more sex and violence than Herman Mellville ever imagined and is set in Detroit’s underworld.  I am having a ball writing it.

Well, that’s it for now.  See you soon.

Last week I launched the website for Sunset, Michigan, the fictional town where I set my mystery novels.  My original idea was to use it to house some of the material I had to cut from the books, and to fill in gaps in the stories. Read the rest of this entry »

My novels are set in the fictional town of Sunset, Michigan.  For those of you who know Michigan the exact location of the town is just north of Traverse City and south of Petoskey, on the Lake Michigan shore.

During the rewriting of the first novel DARK SUNSET, I had to cut a fair amount of background story out of the book to keep it flowing along.  It was really good stuff and provided some historical perspective and color to the novel.  However, I had to kill these children as they just slowed the story down too much. Read the rest of this entry »

An effective query letter is an important second step to having your book published (the first step is writing a fantastic novel of course). Read the rest of this entry »

I just finished writing the outline for my next mystery — Hair Trigger, which will be the first book in a new series.

My first two mysteries — Dark Sunset and Bloody Sunset — are set in a small town of Sunset, Michigan.  For Hair Trigger I thought I might give Sunset a rest and go in a different direction. Read the rest of this entry »

As a writer I have never had a problem generating ideas.  My biggest issue has been organizing them.  Over the years I filled numerous notebooks and scraps of paper with thoughts and concepts.  Most were titled ‘What If’.  However, few of them ever seemed to make it into a finished narrative.   A huge percentage ended up tucked in drawers or filing cabinets stagnating and forgotten. Read the rest of this entry »

For all those of you who are specifically interested in reading and writing fantasy fiction (the darker type) the annual World Fantasy Convention is being held right here in Toronto at the beginning of November. Read the rest of this entry »

You may have noticed that I haven’t been keeping the blog up to date lately.  Thanks to Ted Rushton for helping to fill the gaps.

I have decided to re-up the site and take it in a new direction. Read the rest of this entry »

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Unlike Americans, who rate their politicians with varying degrees of saintliness and deviltry, Canadians have a more basic and expressive rating system. Read the rest of this entry »

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