Every couple of years or so the B.C. Lions Society for Children with Disabilities runs a charity sculpture project. This is from the 2006 “Spirit Bear” campaign which saw 200 fibreglass … Read More
Canada – February 2005 – English Bay
This is a photo I took shortly after I arrived in Vancouver looking from the beach, across English Bay to the mountains. [Canada – February 2005 – English Bay by … Read More
Metrics Monday – 10th February 2014
Work got in the way of writing in a dramatic fashion this week – we have a new title coming out on the 25th of February and there was some … Read More
Nine Years On
I sort of forgot because we had a busy day but Saturday marked the ninth anniversary of my arrival in Canada. I can honestly say that moving here was the second … Read More
Metrics Monday – 3rd February 2014
I know, I know. Nothing but metrics every week. Very boring. In my defence I do have a post on our Bahamas trip in the drafts folder, I just need … Read More
Metrics Monday – 27th January 2014
I owe the blog a post about our trip to the Bahamas and on my 200 day writing record but the day job is getting in the way at the … Read More
Metrics Monday – 20th January 2014
Very late metrics, we’ve been on holiday in the Bahamas so no blogging for me. But I did get some fiction writing done which helped me hit 4,666 words for … Read More
Metrics Monday – 13th January 2014
A pretty good word count for the first full week of the year – 4,345. Most of the writing was the revisions to The Ghost Smuggler which are going well. I’m … Read More
A Year in Books – 2013
According to Goodreads, I read 38 books last year (some of which are short stories): That could easily be the largest number of books I’ve read in a year since … Read More
Metrics Monday – 6th January 2014
A pretty good week to finish/start the year – 5943 words – although it’s somewhat misleading because about 1,400 of those were part of an outline which are generally stream of consciousness … Read More