TOO DEAD THE PHALAROPE is one of my stories in here, using the Yukon as a stand-in for Alaska. The other story is THE RAGTIME KID STRIKES OUT. Both are Jenny Melrose stories, my female bookseller character who appears now and then in my short fiction.

I’m planning to put the covers of some of the anthologies I’m in on here. In no particular order here’s the first: My story here, ‘TOO MANY GUYS NAMED BILL’ is one of my favorites. It’s all true except for the insurance guy and the villian. I wanted to fictionalize my mother’s many arsons.

This is a picture of me when I was a young (ish) bookseller. The Sunday Magazine did a lengthy article on the three major out of print and antiquarian dealers. There were 35 bookshops altogether n our small Canadian border town back then in the 1980′s. Now there are seven, two of them book exchanges [...]

Book One – Just finished, ‘What Happened In The Choir,’ 222 pages, non-fiction about what I did (with many other parents) when we discovered pedophila had rampaged through the young boys in our church choir and the church refused to make public announcement of responsibility and provided only short-term & minimal counselling. This could be [...]