For those of you following along with the development of book 4 in the Portia Adams series, I think I’ve got a new tentative title: The Detective and the Spy. It turns out the spy that Portia runs into in act 1 of the story, is becoming quite significant to the storyline. He started out as a Christopher, but in reading more about spies in the 1930s, I’m becoming enamoured of naming him after Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series. Ian’s middle name is Lancaster, so here

A new episode of One Fictitious Moment and it’s about how to self-edit your work. Hope you enjoy it! You can Subscribe to my new channel here by the way: https://www.youtube.com/user/onefictitiousmoment #writing #youtube #detectivefiction #video #fun

Encouraged by my friend Chris Brogan, these are the three words that will keep me motivated for the rest of 2015: Strong: This is both a physical and mental mantra. I want to strengthen my body over the next year so that back pain is minimized and core strength is maximized. I’m doing this by working out with a trainer and dedicating 3-days a week to the gym. Mentally I need to stay strong to stave off the ‘easy-money’ in favour of my creative goals. Since I left my full-time

I got to sit down with with host CBC Mary Ito to chat about some Canadian book series to get your kids hooked on this summer: The books and links I mentioned: Books for 3 – 6 year-olds Gabby by Joyce Grant Giraffe Meets Bird by Rebecca Bender Franklin by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark Discovering Words by Neepin Auger Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt Books for 6 – 12 year-olds Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley Neil Flambe by Kevin Sylvester The Seven Series by various

It’s been a while but the latest instalment of One Fictitious Moment is on YouTube. I love to lose myself in a good historical fiction novel (must be why I’ve read every Phillipa Gregory book!) but writing one is even better. Any excuse to watch Downton Abbey and re-read Gone with the Wind, Of Mice and Men and many others — right? Getting in the mindset of my 1930s detective requires immersion in the media of the time, and a lot of research into what was happening in Europe a