Well, here we are. July 31. Those of you who RSS this blog may get this final, desperate pitch in time to act. For the rest of you, this posting represents a somber coda for this journey of book pimpage we’ve all endured – er, enjoyed. Today, sales for the collectable signed, limited edition hardcover …
Time does fly, when you’re procrastinating about buying a limited edition of my story collection Monstrous Affections. Here we are, at about the end of July — two months after the collector’s hardcover went live at The Horror Mall. Soon, it will be live no longer, and the opportunity to purchase said hardcover will be …
Hello, landlubbers. I am writing this from a room at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, on the Toronto Islands, currently quarantined by a long-running municipal workers’ strike that has stopped the ferries from running. The Islands, for those of you not from around here, are a Village-like setting on city parkland just off …
I got off the phone with her son Leo – and that was one thing he was very clear about: don’t say Phyllis passed away, or passed on. She wouldn’t have tolerated that kind of imprecise, beating-’round-the-bush talk about something as straightforward as death. So Phyllis died, at 83, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto …
There’s no objective evidence at all, of course, that the 10K run I did this afternoon, after 10 months being down with a very nasty heel spur, had anything to do with the curative powers of Polaris, the media-centric sf convention I attended in Richmond Hill this weekend. And yet… …after… Coming up with the …
That’s right – I’ll be at Polaris this weekend. Polaris being the CRT-and-LCD-focussed media sf convention where we talk about television and the movies and a bit of the fiction. I have panels, and a reading, and a signing, in my home-town of Richmond Hill this time. It is at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North …