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- Hometown:
- Kitchener
- Relationship Status:
- Married
- About Me:
- Poet and short story writer. I have long been a writer, but never aspired to be published until a crisis in my life changed my situation and gave me the time to devote to writing consistently. I maintain a blog of poetry and stories that is well-received. I have had a number of my humourous, topical poems published in The Daily Gleaner in Fredericton, NB as well as a couple of poems published online and in the pages of The National Post. In addition, my poems have been published in U.S. and Canadian magazines and I wrote a particular piece as a prologue to a book for the organization F.A.C.T (Families Against Crime and Trauma).
I am married to a wonderful, funny man and we share a love of food, film and felines as well as other cultural pursuits.
- Favorite Books:
- The English Patient, Anil's Ghost, Asta's Book, anything by Cornell Woolrich, The Little Country by Charles de Lint, Close to Shore, In a Dry Season, 12:00 Eastern Wartime, Life of Pi
- Favorite Canadian Authors:
- Charlotte Gray
Alistair MacLeod
Michael Ondaatje
Peter Robinson
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Anything on BBC Canada
Survivor
Amazing Race
Coronation Street
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Hi Kat,How are you? Not heard much from your neck of the woods lately. I do hope you're ok. I wanted to a) wish you a Merry Christmas, and b) ask a favor of you. My book 'The Nemesis Cell' is one of the nominations for Decembers New Covey Cover Awrds, and I was hoping you wouldn't mind casting a vote for me at www.thenewcoveycoverawards.blogspot.com/
Just thought I'd drop by and say hello and how are you? Not heard much from you lately so I hope you're keeping well, and keeping busy too of course.
anyway, stay well, and I'll look forward to hewaring from you when you have some free time. I'm busy working on the sequel to 'A Study in Red' and it's going well so far.
Best regards
Brian
A Celtophile is much the same as an Anglophile - someone who is interested in all things Celtic.
Yes, my title is from Danny Boy, one of my late father's favorite songs. Although he was not Irish (pure French-Canadian on both sides), he grew up in a village called Irishtown in the Gaspe.
One of these days I will visit Cape Breton, but for the moment, all our "vacation savings fund" is going toward next summer in England, Ireland and Wales.
In Sunshine or in Shadow is available at both Amazon sites. If you do read it, let me know how you like it.
Happy Canada Day!
Cynthia
Yes, I did see that film, though I don't really remember too much about it now. I do recall it being very creepy as you say.
I lived in a small town called Banchory, which is on Royal Deeside, about 20 miles inland from Aberdeen. It was a truly beautiful place to live, we had the River Dee on one side of the house, and the other three sides were surrounded by pine forest.
Look forward to hearing more from yousoon.
Best regards
Brian
I'm actually reading a Robert Goddard at the moment, "Borrowed Time" I actually have a shelf dedicated to him on my bookshelf and have a large number of his books. Perhaps my favourite so far is 'Never Go Back' probably becuase it was set in the part of Scotland where I used to live. Another great read is 'Sight Unseen'
My novel 'A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper' is published in paperback and e-book by Double Dragon Publishing from Markham, Ontario, and is available through Amazon in Canada as well as Amazon.com and Amzon UK etc. Barnes & Nobel, Powells etc all carry it too. My other publishers are US based but again all of my work is available thorugh Amazon etc, or in the case of the e-books, direct from the publishers.
I hope I've answered your questions satisfactorily. That's the problem with these sites, when you click on 'comment back' you lose the original message. I'll look forward to hearing more from you, and good luck with the poetry.
Best regards
Brian
Like you, I began my writing career as a poet, then moved on to short story writing before turning to full-length novels. It's strange how writers often run parallel courses in their careers. I hope you enjoy being here at the network, and welcome!
Brian
Thank you for inviting me to be your friend. I would be glad to accept. If I can slow down a moment, I will check out your blog. I also have a blog (www.tale2k.blogspot.com), but I am afraid I have not taken the time to go blog hopping. Do you have your favourite blogs which you check out regularly? Poetry is a fascinating way of telling a story or of expressing emotions. I have only tried it a few times.