🖋️📚 I’m editing my latest novel. Always an exciting process for me. No major structural issues now, just ‘pushing the commas around.’

I lived in Alberta for a long time. I'm ashamed of what it's become. Smith's party is Not a Conservative Party. It's a MAGA party. It's an insult to real conservatives that they've appropriated that word, and are preventing the real C party from using the word Conservative. Shame.

🖋️📚 Hi readers. For the next week or so, I'm offering the eBook of 'Still Life of a Salesman' for free. Download directly from my website. If you like it, you can let me know, or just tell all your reading friends. Thanks so much.

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Recently, I've wondered if I'm being foolish or selfish or misguided by continuing to write novels for people to enjoy, while the world is on fire. Obsession is a strange beast.

💙📚🖋️ If you are looking for some relief from today's mad world, here are a couple of novels to distract.
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📚💙 I'm a Canadian novelist, new to bluesky. I'm looking forward to engaging with the writing community, and other concerned citizens of the world. Stay safe out there.