November has been busy so far, between various political scandals, and teaching my first-ever writing workshop. I was at the lovely Tatamagouche Centre last weekend, with a group of eight or nine writers all interested in kick-starting their fiction-writing practise, many of them committing to the insanity that is NaNoWriMo. It was really great to…

I seem to have inadvertently begun writing a new novel. All I set out to do was keep up with the participants in the writing workshop I’m teaching this weekend, and bam, just like that, a spark got lit. God damn it.

Well, it’s hard to know where to go from here. Wednesday night’s launch for Fallsy Downsies was pretty much perfect. My inlaws came down from Moncton, friends arrived from the south shore, and even from Ontario (they were coming anyway for the Halifax Pop Explosion, but organized their travel so they could arrive a day…

Here’s a piece in the Chronicle Herald about me and my book! Shit’s getting real, people. Sometimes I read things like this and think: I should talk less, or more slowly, and then I wouldn’t mix metaphors around building worlds and furnishing nests and the like. And then I think: Oh well. The Farmers’ Market…

With my Halifax launch a mere week in the future (details here), plans are coming together nicely for a wee tour of Ontario in about six weeks. After a smattering of dates around the Halifax area in mid-November, I’ll drive up to Toronto for a launch on Friday, November 29 at the excellent BellJar Cafe.…

The day started with beautiful weather and tennis. It progressed through oatmeal with raisins, maple syrup and a bit of butter. I read The Coast, the paper I used to edit, and in which I am this week featured, and felt glad and grateful at the lovely write-up Whitney Moran did on me and my…

Plans are coming together for my book tour! I’m excited to get in a car and trace the route Lansing and Evan drive — at least as far as southern Ontario. I’m delighted to say that I’ve nailed down dates and venues for a Toronto launch (Nov 29), an event in Guelph (Dec 3) and…

It’s here! Official book release day is finally here! The day I thought would never come, through long years of trying to eke out a few sentences alongside my day job, then those intense months of winter and spring of writing and rewriting thousands of words a day, and the endless-seeming summer of waiting, waiting,…

If you’re near a radio in Halifax this evening, or near the internet anywhere, you can tune in the weird and wonderful Potato Salad Radio Show on CKDU. David Dahms is a visual artist and deep-thinking guy who hosts this terrific two-hour show on Saturday evenings. Tune it in here tonight starting at 6pm Atlantic,…

It is my job to describe things. Occurrences, emotions, scenes, feelings. I ought to be able to tell you all about Word on the Street on Sunday, to take you inside my own head and show you how it felt to hold Fallsy Downsies in my hands and read from it to a packed tent,…