After many years as an arts publicist, I’m moving away from publicity work and back into freelance journalism.

My short story Matryoshka appears in EDGE Publishing’s forthcoming release Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (October 2012).

My post-apocalyptic short story The Room Between has been shortlisted in the WEWW 2012 Writing Contest. On June 20, join me and the eight other prose finalists as we read our stories and the top three winning stories are announced.

I’m proud to throw my support behind two fantastic organizations doing important work in my community: Children with Intestinal and Liver Disorders Foundation (C.H.I.L.D.) and Fighting Chance Productions.

I’m the guest blogger of the week over at the nerdbiskit site! Pop over to read my answers to Lisa’s zany questions about my book, my day job as an arts publicist, and things that make me grin like an idiot.

A short story I wrote entitled No Man’s Land placed third in Brucedale Press’ Thirteenth Annual Acrostic Story Contest.

Over the course of the last month, my novel has managed to stir, excite, challenge and disturb reviewers all over the world. I couldn’t be more delighted.

The impatient side of my personality wrote The Healer in messy, frantic bursts of creativity. Now, it’s time for the patient side to step up and get down to the business of cultivating an audience.

On September 11, The Healer reached #8 on Amazon Canada’s science fiction adventure list. To give you an idea of how momentous an accomplishment this was for yours truly, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was #9 on the list, and my favourite Philip K. Dick tome—Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—sat at #12.