The Ying & Yang Book

Posted on Jan 1, 2011 in Featured, My Books, Writing | 0 comments

In the international terminal of a large European airport, Monday morning is about to get a whole lot worse. At 7.35am Pangaean Airlines, one of Europe’s major carriers, is put into receivership grounding all flights, stranding thousands of passengers and impounding tonnes of luggage. But all is not as appears on the surface and the sliding-doors moment of one woman deciding to retrieve her suitcase will ricochet through the lives around her.

The combined anthology contains 22 original stories, including the prologue and epilogue.

My own story, “Providence” is included in the anthology.

The Red Book

Posted on Jan 1, 2011 in Featured, My Books, Writing | 0 comments

In a small North American university town ten lives are intersecting…

Miranda reaps what she has sown…
Mitchell understands there is no resisting fate…
Clint dreams of forging a violent destiny…
Elizabeth is about to make a discovery…
Robin hides a terrible secret…
Simon hasn’t slept in ten days…
Sam is pursued by nightmares…
Susie has lost everything…
David has just been found…
Jake atones for past evils…

Ten ordinary people struggling to keep their sanity in an insane world.

My own story, “Not Myself” is included in the anthology.

My 2011 Anti-Resolutions

Posted on Dec 31, 2010 in Anti-Resolutions, Featured, General Silliness, Writing | 7 comments

It’s time get the new year off to a creative start—and make some resolutions you’ll actually keep in the process.

The rules are simple:

• List ten things you resolve NOT to do in the upcoming year.
• Be as creative as possible.

To get this thing rolling, here are…

My 2011 New Year’s Anti-Resolutions

1. I will NOT try to get my kids to use rechargeable batteries by telling them that every time they throw away a regular battery an angel loses its wings.
2. I will NOT try to free up spaces next to me on the bus by reading aloud from my Kindle version of The Anarchist’s Cookbook.
3. I will NOT lobby the local school board to teach the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, even though String Theory teaches us that at the sub-atomic level we are all rather noodly.
4. I will NOT, assuming I earn my Kilt this year, bedazzle it so as to make myself more visible.
5. I will NOT found a new religion with a bovine deity in an attempt to deduct my over-consumption of Red Bull from my taxes.
6. I will NOT sink my savings into an attempt to have MTV Games add Kazoo Hero to their stable of video games.
7. I will NOT legally change my name to Inigo Montoya so that I have a unique pick-up line to use when meeting women.
8. I will NOT pursue my loves of science and writing by completing my draft of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Nuclear Fusion in the Home.
9. I will NOT announce myself at my friends’ doors with…Knock, knock, knock, “Penny”, knock, knock, knock, “Penny”, knock, knock, knock, “Penny.”
10. I will NOT go an entire year without using question marks, while mocking my friends because of their use of mongrel punctuation.

My Birthday Present

Posted on Jun 4, 2010 in Design, Featured, Writing | 4 comments

As my birthday present to myself I am giving myself a new blog. Those of you who may have visited lately will notice that the design is completely different (and in progress) and many posts have disappeared.

This weekend I am celebrating my birthday by moving from one apartment to another. But after that settles down, I’ll hammer out the changes to the blog. Then I’ll be concentrating much more on writing and much less and keeping the design up to date.

So for the time being, please pardon the mess.