From my house to yours . . . happy holidays and all the best in 2018.
Watching the caboose of 2017’s freight train speeding out of sight is usually the time I ask myself, WTH? Where did that one go?
It seems my parents were right: each year speeds up and our lives get busier.
Before this one slips away, I’d like to hit pause to thank you for visiting me here each month. I appreciate you taking the time to drop a note in the comments, share my posts, or recommend my books. I hope these posts and my books entertain you and provide a much-needed escape from the speeding train.
From my house to yours, Merry Christmas, and here’s to a happy, healthy 2018.
Happy reading, happy writing!
Yesterday, I gathered my knee pad, gloves, and garden tools and set out to dig in the dirt. With a mind to battling weeds and plot holes, I crawled under one of the dwarf apple trees. A regiment of weeds had settled in during the winter.
Yesterday, however, it didn’t wander that far. Across the road I heard the bleat of new lambs, the drone of a neighbour’s lawnmower, the sputter of a chainsaw. Overhead, birdsong competed with the distant clang of metal as someone worked on farm machinery.
After a few hours of weeding, I felt refreshed, recharged. I’m now ready to tackle James, a character who is causing no end of trouble in the next Gift Legacy installment.
I’m thrilled to share another endorsement for The Gift: Betrayal. This one is from Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestselling author 
Elinor Florence
A freight trained called summer is thundering by, leaving backyard parties and BBQs in the din of its wake. Thankfully, it still has a full head of steam with miles of summer track yet to travel. And what a glorious summer it’s been so far, with good company, an abundant fruit crop, and plenty of fresh salmon.
Living on Denman Island with roadside produce stands and a thriving Saturday market, we mark the passing season by which fruit crop is ripening. First came the cherries, then the loganberries and blueberries. We started picking blackberries a week ago, about the same time the transparent apples started falling from the trees, and yesterday we harvested the apricots.
Happily, the abundance doesn’t stop there. In book news, I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Karen Oberlaender. Check out our conversation in her short and snappy “