Bruce Blake has released the third novel in his acclaimed Icarus Fell dark urban fantasy series, Secrets of the Hanged Man. To celebrate the launch, he’s giving away a coupon that will allow you to download the e-book from Smashwords for only 99 cents to anyone who signs up for Bruce’s newsletter at http://eepurl.com/pjLej Secrets of […]
Coming July 15: The third instalment in Bruce Blake’s best-selling Icarus Fell urban fantasy series: SECRETS OF THE HANGED MAN. What’s it about? Icarus Fell thought the afterlife couldn’t get any worse…until Hell came looking for him.When you are the orphaned child of a disgraced nun, and you’re saddled with a ridiculous name like Icarus […]
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 […]
Spring is coming to Ottawa — I can tell because the snow is getting dirty and the birds are starting to chirp (“Hey! We’re freezing out here!”) Photo by D. Gordon E. Robertson, licensed under Wikipedia Creative Commons. A change of season always inspires me to take on new projects, and to resolve to complete […]
My house in winter: a source of inspiration. Ever since I read Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale, I’ve wanted to write about the power and majesty of winter. Helprin wrote about images of frozen lakes, mountains of snow, impassable drifts and sharp, bright stars in a sky frozen to crystalline clarity. I remember similar images from […]
What crisis? The news media keep referring to the current storm in Parliament, where a Liberal-NDP coalition, supported by the Bloc Québecois, are trying to replace the Conservative government, as as a “crisis.” Peter Mansbridge, CBC TV’s news anchor, CBC Radio news, the front page of the Globe and Mail, and more all use […]
Talk of the stock market crash is driven by the bandwagon.