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Five Ways to Kickstart Your Writing Imagination with a Mystery Con: Bloody...
1. Dare to Be Stupid Click on the pic to buy Terminally Ill from this crazy-looking chick. I’ve never looked good in a surgical cap, whether it’s the guy’s kind or the poofy, blue, disposable women’s...
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What I’m Working On Now: Hope, Noir & My First #Walkcast [#MyWritingProcess...
First up, props to Rob Brunet. I first got to know him because a contact at Ellery Queen mentioned he’d sold a story to the magazine, so I Tweeted a hi and congratulations, and Rob was like, “Uh, hi....
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NanowriME (Or, how I hurt myself by writing thirty thousand words in nine days)
It’s NaNoWriMo! Wha’s that? You know, when people try to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. National Novel Writing Month. I never picked up the gauntlet until now. I was like, I’m busy. I’m in the...
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Killer openers: the first seven paragraphs of Stockholm Syndrome
Birth smells. I’m not saying it stinks–well, to some people, it does. I remember the classmate who finished our med school OB/gyn rotation without ever delivering an infant. He delivered half of the...
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Stockholm Syndrome: Chapter 1
Two doctors. One killer. One woman in labour. A killer infiltrates the obstetrics ward of a Montreal hospital just before Christmas, taking one pregnant woman and one resident doctor hostage at...
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Stockholm Syndrome, Chapter 2
Pre-order.Read Chapter 1 here. I screamed. It happened so fast. I’d never seen anyone use a gun, except my dad fooling around with a BB gun in our back yard, and now Stan dropped to his knees before he...
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Stockholm Syndrome, Chapter 3
Pre-order. Chapter 1 here. Chapter 2 here. “I can get you Casey Assim,” I said, since at this point, I would have promised both my grandmothers. Not that I’d actually deliver them to this madwoman. But...
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Being a bestseller is *sick*
The good news: Stockholm Syndrome hit the bestseller list on Kobo less than two weeks after its debut. The bad news: I was willing to grind myself to powder to get there. Most people hit the brakes...
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Buy Local: R&L’s Book Nook
I’m sold out of Stockholm Syndrome for the moment (yeah! Fist punch! Running man dance move! Wish I’d had another one for Melissa B), so now it’s time to turn the spotlight on our hard-working local...
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Secret stories from my Ontario Morning/Ottawa Morning interviews, 50% off...
First of all, thanks to everyone who listened to my Stockholm Syndrome interview with CBC Radio’s Ontario Morning on January 27th. You can listen to the replay here:...
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Top 5 Moments at Writers Police Academy 2016
What’s the Writers Police Academy? A hands-on conference teaching you about law enforcement, forensics, and emergency medical services. I’m a doctor, which means I expect conferences to teach me...
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Stockholm Syndrome debuts in Montreal! (CBC’s Homerun & Paragraphe Books)!
Yo yo yo! The first four Hope Sze books take place in this creative, crazy, multicultural bouillabaisse known as Montreal. I’d really love to get the word out in Hope’s hometown. But how does one...
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