summer reading

Father's day sample: Advice

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 […]

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 […]

Sample Sunday: cleaning the pool in the hot sun

It’s the long weekend, the beginning of the summer season for many in the northern hemisphere. Some of us start to dream of the luxurious, lazy season ahead, lying by the pool … any pool … because most of us don’t have a pool … In reality, the weekend for most of us means cleaning […]