Speaking of dogs, NewMyths.com made
some very kind comments about my short story “Roxy,” which was first published
in NewMyths Issue 32, September 1, 2015. NewMyths Issue 73 includes an
“archives” link to that original story, and also provides my comments about “Roxy”
and the stories that followed. You can find the link to NewMyths Issue 73 here:
https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmythscomissue73/issue-73-stories?authuser=3
Recent Publications
Cartoons and
Illustrations:
“How
Asteroids Get Off Track,” Scifaikuest,
November 2025, print, Hiraeth Publishing, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-november-2025-1
“Where Lost
Socks End Up,” Little Old Lady Comedy, December
24, 2025, https://www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/mlmbukrzrvmpdkishrxukij6nj3tus
Fiction:
“Saving
TIM,” Havok: Multiversal, Ebenezer
Scrooge theme, December 9, 2025.
Humour:
“Must-See
Additions to the Bowl Game Season,” Little Old Lady Comedy, December
22, 2025, https://www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/kgnsbhovby6o5zc5sd2cpypnt37zdh
Nonfiction:
“Pickleball
popularity rising in Norfolk County,” Simcoe Advocate December
18, 2025, page 19.
Poetry:
“As Twilight Approaches,” Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume 3, Fall 2025, Ansible Press (poem
first appeared in Dreams
and Nightmares 127,
May 2024), https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/years-best-canadian-fantasy-and-science-fiction-volume-one/c9741a96-6b59-3beb-b69e-29da6cff75e6.html
“At the
Root,” “Even in Dark Times,” Transition, Fall and Winter 2025, Canadian Mental
Health Association (Saskatchewan Division,” Inc.
[dragon
in the studio], [final curtain call], “A Mother Waits for News…,” Scifaikuest,
November 2025, print, Hiraeth Publishing, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-november-2025-1
“The Ghost Town of the Past,” NonBinary Issue 42, Erased From History, December 11,
2025, Zoetic Press, https://www.zoeticpress.com/branded-merch/p/nonbinary-review-issue-42-erased-from-history
“Some News
Can Wait,” “Until We Go to Mars,” Jupiter’s Eye, December 2025, Hiraeth
Publishing, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/jupiter-s-eye-december-2025
Reviews:
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny, The Seaboard Review
of Books, December 10, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-black-wolf-by-louise-penny
“Magical
Realism Series Continues in No Love Lost by Jane
Glatt,” The Seaboard Review of Books, December
8, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/no-love-lost-jane-glatt
The Second Greatest Show on Earth: Henry Bergh, the
Protection of Animals, and the Evolution of the Modern Social Movement, by Darcy Ingram, The Seaboard Review
of Books, December 15, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-second-greatest-show-on-earth-darcy-ingram
What I’m
Working On
Through
2025, I spent a lot of my writing time with nonfiction, including reviews and
articles. Though I plan to make a more concerted effort to write fiction as
well in 2026, I do have a number of nonfiction projects I plan to get to in the
coming year, including some I’m working on this month. I’ve also been writing
some short humour (some fictional, some nonfiction), so working on polishing up
and sending out some of those items will also be a focus.
Coming Soon
An interview
with Lynn Hutchinson Lee, author of Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens and the
soon-to-be-released Nightshade, is
scheduled to come out in Interstellar Flight Magazine January 26,
2026. Lynn provided some great answers to the questions I developed, so I’m
looking forward to sharing her insights.
I also have
a poem, and a review of Sandra Lindlow’s poetry collection Mother Hubble’s Cupboard and Other Poems About Inner and Outer Space, in Star*Line 49.1.
