Long Time No See

Wow. I must apologize as I've been away from this website for a really long time. However, I have been really busy with things that were really exciting.For the most part, my time during the past 6 months has been focused on running for Ottawa City Council. Despite long odds, no money and few volunteers, we managed to put together an excellent showing in Capital Ward. Despite all of the long hours, I found that the experience was really worth it as I met some amazing people, campaigned on issues I cared about and worked hard to represent a community that has become my home. I'm not sure that I would ever do it again but it was well worth the experience!Following the campaign, I was hoping to participate in National Novel Writing Month but I found that I was simply too exhausted. I have for the most part been working on my next project, The Canvasser, a comedy screenplay which I hope to film on a micro-budget next year. I'm also working on a couple of other screenplays (tis the season of screenplays), namely I, Virus and an unnamed project over the long term while trying to find time to edit my 2012 NaNoWriMo project, Other than I, and my children's book,  Ballad of the Four Princesses, into novella format. Over the next couple of months, I also need to update my website so that it's less like a blog and more of a bookstore. I wish that I had more hours in the day.Next year will be a big one for me as I hope to finally focus on the promotional aspect of my writing career and go ahead and starting making and meeting new fans. It's going to be an exciting year and I hope that I will be able to keep all of your updated.I don't think I've ever had as much fun writing as I have recently so I'll see if I can keep up the momentum into 2015. Thanks again for all of your support.

National Novel Writing Month Promotion

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of posts this month but I have been deeply embedded in this years National Novel Writing Month (#nanowrimo). I'm 47,000 words in with three days so unless something goes wrong (fingers crossed), I'm going to be a winner! (50,000 words in 30 days). To celebrate NaNoWriMo, I'm going to offer Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Kindle Edition for free on Saturday, December 1st for all of the contestants or any others that want a free e-book.Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Kindle Edition is available now for purchase on the Amazon Store.

National Novel Writing Month

Sorry for going dark for a month. Things have been quite busy. The paperback version of Evermore: Call of the Nocturne has hit a little bit of a snag. Apparently, creating pdf manuscripts using Apple's Pages software is terribly bad idea. Apparently, it creates errors in the pdf document that don't show up until the paperback is printed! Sigh. Thankfully, the nice folks at Lulu support have graciously converted my manuscript and allowed me to upload it again. Once I get an updated cover from Jordan (there was a slight spacing issue that caused the title to get almost cut off on the original print run), we'll be good to go to finally publish the paperback. Once that's done, I'll be free to organize my book launch party.In the meantime, I'm taking advantage of National Novel Writing Month to get a quick start to my next project. Entitled Other than I, my goal is to get the first 50,000 words of it down by the end of November. That's about 1600 words a day. Typically, my goal has been to write 1000 words a day and I've always found that excruciating. Thus far, it's been going well. After the first 10 days, I have written 16,750 words, making me ahead of schedule. It's a wonderful challenge and a great excuse to get off your butt and finally start that project you've always been thinking about.Well, wish me luck. This novel is going to write itself.