Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries – Excerpt and Giveaway

As I mentioned last Friday, author Joylene Nowell Butler is on tour this month with MC Book Tours featuring her new mystery novel, Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries. It will be released November 1st by Dancing Lemur Press L.L.C. Copies are currently available for pre-order in eBook at the following sites: Amazon.ca Amazon.com Dancing Lemur Press, L.L.C Print

Cover Reveal for FOREIGN EXCHANGE by Denise Jaden (plus a Special Giveaway)

  Author Denise Jaden’s next book, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, is due to be released this October. Denise is here today to let us in on the cover reveal, and she also has a special giveaway for us, involving Stephanie Perkins’ ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. Read on to find out more.  ~ First, here are a few of Denise’s

The Plot… er, the Snow, Thickens (There’s a Giveaway, too!)

Chilly west coasters are coping with the intrusion of an Arctic ridge of high pressure. It’s creating strong outflow winds and bringing frigid temperatures from the Interior of the province into our normally balmy south coast. As the front pushes towards the coast it’s meeting warmer Pacific onshore currents, producing… what else? More snow. Just

Interview: Author Christine Lindsay

. Today I’m pleased to share an interview with debut author Christine Lindsay. I discovered just recently that Christine and I are almost neighbours. We both live in BC’s Central Fraser Valley just outside Vancouver, which is on the Pacific coast of Canada, about 200 miles north of Seattle. Christine says it’s a special time

One Writer’s Admission and a Giveaway

. Fifty-three. That’s how many books I have on a particular shelf in my office, and that doesn’t include reference books or any borrowed from the library. All of them tell me how to write a novel. I counted them because I thought it would bolster my confidence. After all, if I’ve read that many

I’m somewhere else today

I’m not here today because I’m there… there being Keli Gwyn’s “Romance Writers on the Journey” blog, where Keli and I are having a cosy chat. Please click on over and join us. There’s virtual popcorn to munch as you read, and at the end of the interview there is a draw. Keli will draw

And the winning caption is…

Wow! Picking a winner was harder than I expected it would be. There were some very imaginative entries. I enlisted outside opinions and we finally came to a consensus, although not without almost reaching the fist-fight point. The compromise was to post the runner-up captions as Honourable Mentions. BEST WRITING-RELATED CAPTION and winner of a $15

A Caption Contest Giveaway

Yesterday we spent the day at the Vancouver Aquarium and came home with tired but happy grandchildren, sore feet, and many pictures of spectacular underwater sea life. As I sorted through the photos, deciding which to keep and which to trash, this one begged for a caption. My brain went in search of something suitable