2020

Business profits are more important than lives

Ontario government announces shutdown: Epic fail Ontario announces lockdown starting December 24 — no, wait, not until the 26th! Dougie Ford just spend an hour lying on TV. With one exception, a moment of candor that began “I’m a businessman.” He then expounded on the measures his government was taking to protect businesses. A little […]

The Children of the Seventh Son cover

That’s right! It’s nearly here! The second book in the Dark Age trilogy is finally ready for the real world. After four years of serious work on the manuscript, and eight years after publishing Book 1, The Bones of the Earth, I have finally released it to the world. My thanks to all who gave […]

Happy Hallowe'en!

We can’t go door-to-door trick or treating this year, so for the stay-at-home Hallowe’en, here’s a spooky story I published a few years ago. Way back in 2012, I had a minor e-book hit with a story called “The Mandrake Ruse,” which I intended as the first installment in Dark Clouds, a novel that I […]

The Children of the Seventh Son cover

It’s done! The Children of the Seventh Son is ready to release. The second book in the Dark Age trilogy has been fully edited, proofread, and revised several times by yours truly in between every stage. And now it has a cover, with an original image painted by artist Marc Laisne of Montpelier, France and Ottawa, Canada. The cover […]

A content marketing strategy

The last post looked at content marketing as a way of building your brand and attracting new customers. Today, we’re going to dive deeper into how to create a content marketing strategy that works for your business.  How content marketing helps you Simply put, it’s using the information you already have or that you produce […]

The Twilight of Democracy

“Authoritarianism appeals, simply, to people who cannot tolerate complexity.” Authoritarianism is growing in popularity in many democracies, as we can see in places that were once seen as democratic success stories like Hungary and Poland. “Populist” parties and leaders in Italy, France and the U.K.  Trump’s populist and authoritarian appeal is undeniable, and terrifying as […]

Content marketing = knowledge marketing

The darling of marketing communications today is “content marketing,” but it’s nothing new. Businesses large and small have been doing it for decades, through newsletters and free hand-outs in print. Think of your in-flight magazine describing your destination, or the white papers about technical subjects. Content marketing isn’t just for big corporations, though. Smaller and […]