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Black on Maroon by Mark Rothko Rothko defaced. The artist Umaniec Just the other day, an artist, Wlodzimierz Umaniec, pleaded guilty in London Courts, UK to a charge of criminal damage in defacing a very famous painting, Black on Maroon…

I’m an indie novelist used to looking at the traditional film and publishing world from the outside in. Some love the allure of Hollywood. Some of these same people follow their favorite movies from theatres to DVD and streaming video.…

Writers are often asked—Where do you get your ideas and how do you get a whole novel from them? I can’t really explain where the ideas generally come from, except my imagination. But I can tell you where the ideas…

Barbara Kay, a well-known weekly columnist for The National Post in Toronto, just reviewed the third book in The Osgoode Trilogy, A Trial of One. Here’s what she says: “This author has a lively imagination, great narrative energy and an…

My friend, Marjolyn, was reading The Drawing Lesson when she received the following in the mail from Canadian painter Robert Genn. It captures his interaction with the audience at a speaking engagement. He has graciously given me permission to reproduce…

Whenever I read about the battles over same sex marriage, I think of homophobia. That fear of the “other” or the “different” led me to write “A Trial of One,” the third in The Osgoode Trilogy. Here’s an article I…

And David understood. In fact, he was pleased. That’s the happy lot of a novelist, because these other men are entirely fictitious. (It’s rather like having imaginary friends in childhood.) My main “man” for The Osgoode Trilogy (comprised of Conduct…