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Making Peace, No Matter the Cost

Like many people, I recently finished watching the first season of Peacemaker, which airs of Crave TV here in Canada. I’m usually a fan of the more gritty style of superhero movies (The Dark Knight is my favourite), but I quite enjoyed Mr. Gunn’s series, and I thought I’d take some time to figure out why. Some background about me first. Though I wasn’t familiar with the Peacemaker character…

It's release day! The Book of Shadow is now available on Amazon!

Image by Ozgur Ozturk vis Unsplash It’s time once again to say so-long to the old year and welcome the new. We perch at the precipice of a shiny new 365 day period filled with hope for new opportunities, fresh starts, and successes like we’ve never achieved before. It’s also a time for reflection–considering our accomplishments, our areas we’d like to improve, our gains and losses. For me, like…

Of course you can judge a book by its cover! Re-Cover-Y (Part 3) See the progression of the covers of the Books of the Small Gods. #EpicFantasy #BookCovers

Today, our trip down Bruce’s cover version of memory lane comes to its inevitable conclusion. In case you missed it, the mini-series started off with Re-Cover-Y part one and a look at the evolution of the covers of On Unfaithful Wings and All Who Wander Are Lost, the first two books in my Icarus Fell dark urban fantasy series. Next came Re-Cover-Y, the sequel, in which we took a look at two…

Re-Cover-Y (Part 2) The evolution of the covers for the Khrrio's Journey #EpicFantasy trilogy. You really can judge a book by its cover.

I suppose the easiest way to do this is to take things in order. Since we began with Icarus, that makes Khirro the next in line. The circumstances behind the change to Khirro’s covers are completely different than the impetus behind the Icarus Fell series change. While Icarus was very obviously in need of a makeover the first time around, and needs to be more “to market” now, Khirro changed…

It’s been a long time coming–much longer than I wanted or ever intended–but the end of the Books of the Smalls Gods has finally come with the release of And Kingdoms End. And Kingdoms End, the Final Book of the Small Gods If your ready, pick up your copy on Amazon for the special price of $3.99. Haven’t started the series yet? Here’s your opportunity to pick up the first book, When Shadows…

Not Carrie’s finest hour After a Facebook post made by a fellow author in which she lambasted the silly cover someone put on Stephen King’s Carrie, I began pondering how books–especially bestsellers that stay on the market for a long time (Carrie is 47 years old now, dontcha know)–go through many iterations of covers. It made me realize that, other than my three latest books, only one of my…

Icarus Fell on Sale

Icarus doesn’t want you to read this book I’ve decided to run a free promo for On Unfaithful Wings from April 21st to 25th. Icarus is not very happy about it…turns out he’s a private person and would prefer people don’t find out how bad he is at his job helping souls on their way to heaven. To be fair, he never wanted the job in the first place, but that’s no excuse. I think if he applied…

Want to know what NOT to do as a writer? Check out my latest post: How Not to be a Successful Author

The original cover of my first published book I’m embarrassed to admit it’s creeping close to a decade now since I self-published my first book. If everything had gone according to my grand design, I’d be sitting on a beach, sunglasses on to shield against the sun’s glare off the screen of my laptop, a margarita close at hand, as I churned out another novel without a care in the world save for…

It is Monday, Oct. 12, 2020 as I write this (Happy Thanksgiving, Canadians). It’s been six days since lung cancer stole a legendary guitar player from the world…Eddie Van Halen. There are so many words available to describe the man and his work…genius, luminary, ground-breaking, enormous, mind-boggling…feel free to add your own descriptions in the comments.

**FILE PHOTO** Eddie Van Halen Has…

This World We’re Living In

Advance warning: this is my first post since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, so things might get a bit heavy.

Let’s start off with some positive things that have come from this pandemic.

I belong to a Facebook support group for my community that offers help to people in need. It has over 10,000 members.

Every night at 7 pm, people go out on their balconies and cheer in appreciation of the…

Well, this post will probably get me a ton of dates…and it somehow seems appropriate for Valentine’s Day.

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Sometimes I worry that I’m broken; I worry that, after being in love with the same person for more than a decade and a half, my capacity for romantic love has been diminished to the point of uselessness and ineptitude.

Of course, in the last 3 1/2+ years…

Midlife Crisis: The Beginning Part 2…KISS

You wanted the best, you got the best. The hottest band in the world…KISS!!

In my first Midlife Crisis – The Beginning post, I talked about how one of the decisions

Young metalhead Bruce

I’ve made in the throes of this aging thang is to see concerts. The majority of shows I’ve seen and plan to see are from bands I loved in my youth–Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, etc. (Yes, I was a…

Here’s the thing about online dating: as much as it sucks, you can meet some horrible people, and it is soul-destroying, it is also addictive.

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Who doesn’t want to spend a few hours a day seeing who viewed them, who wants to meet them or–maybe, just maybe–chatting with someone who could eventually turn out to be your soul mate? And if not your soulmate, maybe they…

                                                 1972

Today–January 20, 2019–is my 50th birthday.

Half a century since the day of my birth. The beginning of my fifty-first year.

As this day has been approaching, and as I have been writing on this blog and tossing around the term “midlife crisis” like it weren’t no big thang, it turns out if kind of is for me. So I’ve been pondering why that is.

T…

A Man’s Guide to Online Dating Part 2

  Welcome back!

Welcome back for part 2 of A Man’s Guide to Online Dating. If you’re here, it means you either have thick skin and aren’t easily offended, or you stumbled across this post and haven’t actually read part 1 yet. If you haven’t, you might want to go back and give it a read, just so you know what you’re getting into. To make it easier, I’ll even provide you with a LINK.

  So let’s get…

A Man’s Guide to Online Dating Part 1

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It’s a tough world out there in the land of online dating, for both men and for women. As I have referenced in a previous post, the experience is completely different for both, and both come with their challenges. Because I am a man, and because I believe how men act can make a world of difference to the experiences of all genders, this brief guide is directed…