


My two author’s copies of The Drive Across Canada arrived this morning, while I was putting down a new floor upstairs. I read most books on an e-reader or just on my phone, but there’s nothing to beat the feeling of actually holding and touching the printed book you’ve been working on for so long.…

I took a tour of the Canadian Automotive Museum today, in Oshawa. It’s where the book launch party will be for The Drive Across Canada, and it’s such a cool place. Alex the curator and I went over the logistics of where everything will be for the event – the food, the tables, the…

People ask me why I self-publish my novels, but use traditional publishers for my non-fiction. The truth is, my fiction is my own, and while other people give me feedback and advice, and I engage editors and artists exactly as a mainstream publisher would do, a novel is ultimately my own project. For a work…

In 2012, I met Brett Clibbery in a Starbucks in Thunder Bay, while travelling across the country with my son Tristan. I blogged about him, and that account is in my book, Canada’s Road. This week, the bodies of Brett and his wife Sarah were found washed ashore on Sable Island, after they left Halifax…