My first published work Josh and the Magic Vial (Thistledown Press) was shortlisted for a Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize in 2006. In 2009 my second novel Einstein Dog (Thistledown Press) was released.
Presently I have three works in progress:
The Cosmic Chicken is a work of ‘dynamic speculative fiction’ being written in ‘real time’ online. The middle-class world of Rich Mather, an elementary school principal, flies apart as he and his wife Kalie struggle to deal with the abduction of their 18 month old son Elgar. Is Rich’s quest, reincarnated as a rooster named Cosima on the planet Gallus, a descent into madness? Or will he discover the truth behind Elgar’s abduction in the Gallutian dimension? The Cosmic Chicken explores a North American family’s response to the kinds of harsh uncertainties faced by other people and other species every day.
Soldier Boy - The sequel to Josh & the Magic Vial explores the horrific abuse experienced by child soldiers. Josh, Millie and Ian are up against Sirus Blackstone once again. Released from Desolation Isle, where he had been imprisoned in Josh & the Magic Vial, Blackstone concocts a scheme to recruite child soldiers for Prince Vortigen. His ‘candidates’ will repopulate Syde, which lost one-third of its population in the Sydean Rebellion led by Josh. Blackstone also makes plans to capture Millie and defeat Josh by destroying the headquarters of ASTRAL in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Stained Glass – Kyle Welland has been asked by his mother to complete the unfinished memoir of his great-great-grandparents Ana Armstrong and Christopher Dryden. He sets about reconstructing their stories based on a collection of letters contained in an old tobacco tin. Anna, he discovers, had been a prostitute in the Cariboo Gold Rush town of Barkerville. Christopher, a missionary priest, arrived in Barkerville at the height of the gold rush and was soon immersed in a controversy over the installation of a stained glass window at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church. The project, it turns out, had been financed by Anna’s employer Madam Blavinsky, owner of the town’s most ‘luxurious’ brothel. The more upstanding members of the congregation are not amused.
