One of the manuscripts that I have been developing is called "Third Testament". It is a science fiction novel that takes place in the sam...

This has been a lifelong dream of mine. When I was a student, waaaaaaayyyyy back, I used to read about the Nebulas and dream of going one...

The third and final Clarion West workshop for which I signed up over the course of the month of May was in some ways the most useful of t...

So, two more workshops last weekend. These were both Clarion West workshops. I have decided that since I am still not in a positon to app...

The third online workshop in which I participated over the past several weeks was under the auspices of the Clarion West people. For thos...

To continue with the overview of the publishing workshop, we also heard from several authors. I already mentioned Cherie Hart. Cherie had...

The second of the two Quebec Writers Federation workshops I took was called "Get Your Words Out : A Primer on How to Publish" and was led...

Over the period of the lockdown, I have been taking part in a series of online writing workshops, two offered by the Quebec Writers Feder...

Yes, the world has been hit with a massive challenge, and we are all suffering from the psychological malaise called the "coronavirus blu...

Well, it was an intense day. I realized last night that I hadn't written the query letter I would need if anyone was interested in my wor...

I discovered this event on Twitter in December by accident. I happened to log onto Twitter the day in December the event was in play, and...

It may be wishful thinking, still, but I am planning, by hook or by crook (literally, maybe!), to get at least one of my novels into prin...

Well, after completing Inktober 2019, which I found both challenging (producing a drawing every day!) but useful (I developed several new...

I've watched this flurry of posts from hundreds of people (well, I guess thousands, even tens of thousands) every October for several yea...

I was watching the first episode of "Downton Abbey", a follow-up to re-watching "Gosford Park", a film I didn't like when it first came o...

September 1st was the first day of my retirement! I have been worried about this new stage of my life, despite the obvious benefits. I re...

On a last minute impulse, I decided to get away from Quebec and drive along the North Shore all the way to Natashquan, a two-day trip, ov...

One of the epiphanies I had a number of years ago was that, out of my three main passions in life, writing fiction, fashion design, and s...

Seems like there is not too much to say when one is deep into the process of revising text. There's nothing really sexy to come up with. ...

So I presented the work-in-progress that resulted from my residency in Crete (at a conference in Rouen, France, in mid May, 2019). Indeed...