Happy Birthday Toronto!

Today the city of Toronto turns 175-years-old!

Photo by Palestrina55
Since it’s so hard to buy a gift for the city that has everything, why don’t you treat yourself to one of our books that celebrate everything that’s so great about TO!
Learn about Toronto through the years with Mike Filey’s, Toronto – The Way We Were.
Or maybe [...]

WHAT I’M WORKING ON NEXT

I wrote my first two novels — neither of which was published — in the 1980’s. The first one, called Country Music, was a coming of age story about a group of young men in Haliburton, north of Toronto. It almost made it; it was with Doubleday for eleven months, and the young editor who [...]

A Deeper Look at Life’s Foibles

Those who are well-acquainted with mysteries may be interested in this mystery-to-literary fiction spin-off.  J.D. Carpenter, author of the Campbell Young mysteries, takes us on a different journey with Priam Harvey, a character that occasionally steps into the spotlight throughout the Campbell Young mysteries.  This time around, we focus on Mr. Harvey himself, an unemployed [...]

Terror Threat Author Talks About the First “Toronto 18″ Verdict

Just over two years ago, in a series of dramatic police raids in Toronto and the surrounding areas, which shocked many Torontonians, police arrested 18 men suspected of conspiring to bomb several Canadian targets including Parliament Hill, RCMP headquarters CBC buildings in downtown Toronto, and nuclear power plants. Today, the first of the 11 suspected [...]

Press for Award-Winning A Sharp Intake of Breath

John Miller’s A Sharp Intake of Breath, the story of Herman “Toshy” Wolfman who grows up in a left-wing Jewish family in 1930s Toronto, continues to receive good press a year after its release. Winner of The Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction, A Sharp Intake of Breath was most recently reviewed by Andrew Armitage for The Owen [...]

Running with Dillinger Reviews

Since everyone else seems to be blogging today, I could not help but feel left out so I’m jumping into the fun by letting you know about a couple of recent brilliant reviews of Edward Butts’ Running with Dillinger, a book filled with chapters on various Canadian outlaws of the past.

Let’s hop to the reviews [...]