I have updated Dark Clouds, Part 1: The Mandrake Ruse, complete with a new cover. I’m excited about it. I have to thank Quebec graphic designer Daniel Dufour for invaluable advice on typography and colours. The original cover wasn’t bad. I took the photograph in Venice, and while it’s a good image of dark clouds, when […]
You would find it hard to find three excellent writers who are more different than Seb Kirby, Lisa Jay Davis and Charity Parkerson. Seb writes thrillers and science fiction; Lisa published a bestselling memoir of her time as an event producer in Hollywood; and Charity writes erotica, romance and fantasy. But you’ll be surprised at […]
That’s what Russell Blake, author of Geronimo Beach and other action novels, asked in his guest blog post on the World Literary Café. When is everyone’s favourite passtime in page form too much, whatever that is? I’ll admit I don’t read bodice rippers or erotica, so that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m asking the […]
News item: Ontario sex ed: Protesters disrupt school meeting Protesters turned out in force at a Scarborough school Thursday night, disrupting efforts by two local MPPs to discuss Ontario’s new sex ed curriculum. The information session at Agincourt Collegiate Institute was cut short when demonstrators moved inside — chanting “We say no” at MPPs Soo Wong and Bas Balkissoon. The new curriculum has […]
Last week, the Ontario government published its revised health and physical education curriculum, which includes updated sexual education content. The update is actually titled The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Health and Physical Education. There is a separate curriculum for high school, grades 9 to 12. It covers much more than sex, in fact, all forms […]
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A.western:link { }A.ctl:lMy second novel, One Shade of Red,launches TOMORROW, April 2, on Amazon, Smashwordsand other e-book retailers. I’m very excited about this. As you can see in the previous posts, I have done much more publicity in advance this time around: I posted excerpts over the past few months on […]
My second novel, One Shade of Red, launches April 2. What’s it about? With this novel, I turned Fifty Shades of Grey — currently the fastest-selling book ever — on its head. And then, I added more sex. To give you a little taste, here’s an encounter between the two main characters: Damian, the naive twenty-year-old virgin, and the only […]