DOGS IN HEAT

 "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've just officially started writing Dogs in Heat again, and plan to keep at it till it's finished. I've got a 90-page skeleton of the story already completed. I've created a bit of a safe haven with my Saint John novels and it's time to take a chance and try something new. It's a wild ride with Satan, Ernest Hemingway, and Vincent van Gogh, and it's either going to be the best thing I ever write, or the worst. Either way, it's a fun new direction that scares and excites me, so that can only be a good thing.

New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia

I've recently been added to the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. The piece was written by Michael VanTassell. Check out the link below:

New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia

The Moon is Real

After a year of rewriting I'm happy to say that I'm now finished my fifth novel, The Moon is Real. I've printed a copy of the manuscript and will give it one final reading to fix any minor errors. It sits at just 47,000 words -- my shortest work since The Making of Harry Cossaboom, but I think it's the best I've done. (But isn't every new book supposed to feel that way?) The story revisits The Dirty Milkman's Charlie and Prin, A Place of Pretty Flowers' Jeremy Wiggins and Jimmy S., and for those who paid extra close attention to The Goon, the once-mentioned tollbooth operator, Walter Stephens.  

David Adams Richards on New Brunswick

There's no better place than New Brunswick and no better writer to tell you about it. Here's a recent piece by David Adams Richards:

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1219526--my-favourite-place-finding-one-s-soul-in-the-beauty-of-new-brunswick