We got back into Toronto last night at around 9:30, from the sentencing hearing that saw our friend Peter Watts avoid jail time. The crossing back from Port Huron was happily uneventful – particularly as we passed the spot on the bridge where, in December, U.S. Customs and Border official Andrew Beaudry beat and pepper-sprayed […]
I type this from the basement of the Quay Street Brewing Company, where manager Mike Ziegler has kindly let me post this. Sentencing is finished. Judge Adair dismissed any thoughts of jail time, made Peter pay a fine, and shared wisdom about the respect we must afford police. But never mind that. No jail time.
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Tomorrow (Monday April 26) Peter Watts will be in a Port Huron courtroom to learn what the spring and summer have in store for him. It is his sentencing date. As discussed on this blog and elsewhere, Peter was convicted of resisting and obstructing border guards, stemming from an incident late last year at the
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A brief note, to let those of you who’ve shelled out for a Kindle and have come to mistrust paper, that Monstrous Affections (and other great ChiZine titles) are now available for Amazon’s Kindle. I think, actually, that you could read digital versions through the Kindle before. But now you can buy one through Amazon.
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Well that was some Goddamn fun I had, spending the weekend at Ad Astra as I did, staying up too late and doing a stink of a lot of panels and flashing the cover of Monstrous Affections in front of very many people who had no idea what was coming. Ad Astra is the local
Back from one convention, off to another: Ad Astra, in Toronto this time. It is at the Toronto Don Valley Hotel and Suites – a venue remarkably similar to the Toronto Crown Plaza Hotel, where it was held last year. Both hotels are located in the same physical space, at 1250 Eglinton Avenue East. The
Well I’m back, from England and Brighton and the World Horror Convention. The business end of it was pretty straightforward, and went very well. We had to get there on Thursday in time to launch ChiZine’s line of books that night. This, we did – with a certain amount of gusto, I think. Gemma Files,
I’m going to be at the World Horror Convention, cheerful but bleary-eyed after a red-eye flight from Toronto to London, and a bus ride to Brighton, on Thursday morning. If you’re there, Yard-ape, say hello. I’m not signed up for any programming, alas – I got my membership after all that had been finalized. But
I know I promised not to write about feelings (see the Yard’s mission statement to the right of this post). But as the case of my friend Peter Watts and the guards at the Blue Water Bridge sinks in, feeling seems to be all I’m doing. So while this might be a good time to
The news of this hit me hard this morning. Peter, you may recall, was beaten and pepper-sprayed while crossing the Canada-U.S. border at Port Huron, Michigan. For his troubles, they charged him with resisting arrest and assaulting a federal officer – a young man named Andrew Beaudry, who accused Peter of attempting to choke him
Peter Watts was convicted today Read More »