Hello 2025

Yesterday I received a notice that a piece of mine has been accepted for publication. Great news! A good start to the new year. It's a piece that I still feel is well written, eight or nine months after I first started sending it out, which is not always true. It's a creative non-fiction piece, … Continue reading Hello 2025 →

Books I Read (and recommend) in 2024

(from mid December 2023 up until Nov. 18th 2024, anyway.) I surrendered my volunteer reading position with Orca Literary Magazine this summer, and this has allowed me to read (or at least start to read) more published works this year than last, fifty-five including a few “read” as audiobooks as of the time I decided … Continue reading Books I Read (and recommend) in 2024 →

My 4-Star Reads in 2023

Since I’ve been reading “slush” for Orca Literary magazine this year – lots of poems and short stories and some creative non-fiction submissions, which it would be unprofessional for me to talk about much - Because of that slush reading, I haven’t been able to read quite as many books this year as in the … Continue reading My 4-Star Reads in 2023 →

2022 Reads

Between November 15 2021 and November 15, 2022 I read… 83 Books (although some I didn’t read all the way through, and some were audiobook listens rather than reading) Of which: 14 were non-fiction 14 were Advance Reader’s Copies 18 were westerns And 2 were in French Here were my favourite books… The Storm in … Continue reading 2022 Reads →