I've just been listening to The Way Through the Woods on audio book. It's a good yarn, exceedingly well read by Sam West. I listen to audiobooks when I go to sleep - they must have.a male reader and not be too exciting (no true crime or politics) and preferably have no ads (I confess to listening through YouTube, evil of me I know).

Possession Point: A Detective Robert Lui Story #5 eBook : Burwell, Glenn: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Why is your ankle named after a Greek hero and your uterus after a Renaissance anatomist? The answer says as much about power and memory as it does about medicine.

Some days, I quite love my editing work. Most of the time, I find it intriguing, a puzzle to solve, a brain exercise and great fun as I wrestle with words. But sometimes it’s even better than…

Popular! Or so I am told in the three hundred emails I get sent daily using AI to parse my book, praise it to the sky, and offer to help to market it. I’m so excited that my books appeal to t…

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Photos from a visit to Jane Austen House and the area, and things I learned there.

On October 23rd, I’ll be taking part in an event in Halifax called the Writing Rumble. It’s a five-hour writing relay event during which two teams of six Nova Scotian writers compete to “chain-writ…

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When her latest human companion dies, the immortal Frey…

It’s been years since I wrote about crime or controversy in the gardening world. Sadly, that doesn’t mean the absence of either. There are controversies aplenty. Today, we’ll look at just two issue…

I occasionally share news about my romance-novel-in-progress, Cover Charm. Here’s the current blurb: Derek Edwards, a bisexual model, is fired and broke. At least he’s got a photo collection …

“Schwarzmann’s surrealist alternate realities show us how precarious any reality can be.” Chris Benjamin, Atlantic Books Today. “These stories have the off-kilter quirkiness…

We’re off from Inverness to the Isle of Skye with our guide John Alasdair MacDonald. It is a beautiful day tinged with sadness as we travel through the enormous hills with their empty glens; the pe…

View Issue as PDF vol. 16, no. 7ISSN 2369-6516 (Print)ISSN 2369-6524 (Online) Scroll down to read all poems, or select the poem title to go directly to that poem. Select the author’s name to …

My apologies that this bulletin is arriving a day late. It should have been published yesterday, which was Canada’s 2025 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Not coincidentally, I’m currently…

Photo by Dominique BOULAY on Pexels.com Yesterday was the big Truth and Reconciliation Day here in Canada. I purposely didn't post then because I feel I truly have no right to comment on the ages of abuse our indigenous brothers and sisters have endured. It's too big, too engrained in the fabric of our civilization, too close to the rampant racism being seen everywhere in the world today, the endless persecution of people who look different or speak differently or perhaps may be better at our jobs.

On October 23rd, I’ll be taking part in an event in Halifax called the Writing Rumble. It’s a five-hour writing relay event during which two teams of six Nova Scotian writers compete to “chain-writ…