I just published the third book, What a Creep in my trilogy, The Watcher Series. It’s a great summer read filled with off-world adventures, dragons, a grumpy old man, a genius dog, plus strangely aggressive guinea pigs. So, pretty much exactly like The Odyssey, but you don’t have to find a seat in an IMAX and sit there staring at it for three hours. The first books, The Long Watch & What a Dragon, are in much the same vein;…
I have written three books where a dog was a lead character. “What would Doris do?” That was the question I kept coming back to while writing this series. Our dog Doris, who I named that character after, decided she’d packed enough fun into one lifetime and left us in May. She was one of a kind: smart, funny, and just the right kind of maniacal. So whenever my characters got into trouble, by the third book, Doris had taken…
Book III of The Watcher series has been in development for a while, but I never had the time set aside to finish it until this year. I started in February with a pretty good idea of where it was going, and now that it is done, I can say my plans were one thing. The results another entirely. This book was supposed to take place entirely on a different planet. But considering how things are at home at the…
Days after the U.S. men’s hockey team won Olympic Gold, they are still getting roasted by hockey fans, the punditry class and straight media alike after their locker-room hangout with FBI Director Kash Patel and that ill-timed chuckle at one of Trump’s tasteless jokes — the one about “having to invite the women’s team to the White House too.” Ever since, the internet’s been calling the players tone-deaf, disrespectful, and even sexist. Fans are online demanding that the Ottawa Senators…
Do Beatle-Bots Cross the Line? The Beatles have been in the world’s spotlight for more than 60 years, and somehow they’re still finding new ways to inject themselves into the zeitgeist. Not by releasing new music, there isn’t anymore coming, we’re told, nor by becoming outdated or suddenly irrelevant for the first time since they appeared on Ed Sullivan’s stage. No, due to their seemingly indestructible longevity, they are in the middle of one of the biggest ethical questions in…
Alberta’s separatists are back in the headlines – and this time, they’re not just venting on talk radio. They’re bragging about trips to Washington, D.C., and meetings with officials from the U.S. State Department as they chase political and financial backing for an independent Alberta. At the same time, Alberta’s premier is facilitating a referendum process while carefully avoiding a clear, simple sentence Canadians deserve to hear: “Alberta must remain in Canada.” This moment is bigger than one province’s frustration….
Not this second, of course, but there are chapters that have been written, and that means Basil, Duncan and Doris will return to do what they do best. Screw up, and then try to fix it, where the stakes are just the survival of all humanity…. So stay tuned, and if you have a great idea on how this should all turn out, let me know!
The sequel to the smash hit The Long Watch is out and available online! All they want is some well-deserved “me time”, but no. The universe has other plans… It’s not every day that you get to save the world. Especially after you had to die several times along the way, but now that it is saved, that doesn’t mean everything is fine. It’s just the opposite as planet Earth is in worse trouble than before, but what’s even more…
Joan Coyne was born on the 19th of April, 1931 in Heworth, a residential area in Gateshead, located around 3 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne, in England. Unlike most family members, she wasn’t named after anyone, signifying from her first day that she would be something different. She grew up in a warm and loving home in Northern England; however, her father, a foreman for the steel erection company Wright-Anderson, was gone for long periods of time on construction projects….
Thank you all the friends and family that have joined us here today to remember my sweet mom, Joan Roland. When my kids asked how I was doing, I said that I was holding it together ….unless people were nice to me and then I would get quite teary so given where we are right now, buckle up for some emotion. Welcome to this beautiful facility that meant so much to my mom, who was instrumental in the conception, fundraising,…