For Father’s Day, I present a fatherly excerpt from my latest book, One Shade of Red. Picture: Wikipedia Commons Sunday dinner with my parents followed a routine that varied only with the seasons. I’d usually show up after 6, when my Dad would have almost finished barbequing the steaks to black shoe-sole consistency. But since […]
With Reckoning, RS Guthrie takes the fiction writer’s rule book, shreds it in mighty fingers and reassembles it into a new way of engaging audiences. Reckoning is the third of Guthrie’s books to feature Denver Detective Robert Macaulay, also known as Bobby Mac and also known as the heir to the occult power of Clan […]
Ben Wretlind has broken new ground as an author with his novels Castles: A fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors and Sketches from the Spanish Mustang, and with his collection of short stories (which he wrote over several years), Regarding Dead Things on the Side of the Road.All his writing displays a distinctive, poetic […]
One of my favourite middle-grade adventure superheroes is Cassidy Jones. The brainchild of independent author Elise Stokes, Cassidy Jones became a hit about a year and half ago, when a middle school in the US took Stokes’ debut novel, Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula, as a school project. And now, you can enter a […]
The heat is on. Summer is here in Ottawa. Even though I’m spending a lot of this weekend in cold water, the air is heavy and thick with moisture. This week’s sample is from my erotic romantic comedy, One Shade of Red. Most of you already know that it’s a spoof of the biggest bestseller, 50 […]
Despite the weather, summer is coming fast. So for this week’s Sample Sunday, here’s an excerpt from my hot summer novel, One Shade of Red. This one introduces the reader to the hero’s long-time girlfriend, the girl next door: Kristen. Image: Angry Girlfriend by jasonippolitoLicensed under Creative Commons Argument with Kristen “Well, look who’s […]
Dark Prairies, Guthrie’s third novel is a departure from the pattern he established in Black Beast and LOST. They’re horror/supernatural tales crossed with cop mystery-thrillers. Dark Prairies is a mystery about a cop, but the only category that it’s fair to put this into would have to be “literary fiction.” Guthrie calls this book his […]