On 27 April 2013 I performed my first-ever stand-up comedy routine, at Lazy Daisy’s Café in Toronto as part of Erin Keaney’s MotherLoadTV.com Time Out! series. It went extremely well – great fun to be included in a lineup of terrific comics. Here’s an excerpt from my 10 minute-bit:
When you do get published, there comes before the typesetting of your work one of the many events of great vulnerability for a writer: the copyedit. The copyeditor won’t tell you if she likes your work – she’ll just tell you where you went wrong, how you went wrong, and how you can make it …
My novel is again free for Kindle, January 21st. You can find a long excerpt here, or here’s a brief sampler: CHAPTER 15 “Your ETA was out by fourteen minutes,” Tessa mutters through a cigarette as she banks to line up the dirt strip. “The wind changed,” Cordell replies. “You haven’t set the gyrocompass in …