Anyone who thinks Trmp will give one red cent to any Jan5 insurrectionist is living on Earth 2. The money between the two only flows in one direction: upwards. *Assuming he gets his foul paws on the 1.8B$.

Do the Nigerian email phishermen really think an old woman like me, with no relevant industrial or business experience, would be interested in getting into the crude oil export biz with them? I mean, haven’t they heard the Strait of Hormuz is closed? Sheesh.

For godssakes, you Youtube journos, stop teasing us with headlines claiming Trmp has 1 week to live, or his term is about to be cancelled, or impeachment is imminent. If you keep dashing my hopes, day after day, I’m going to start watching Fox News.

Here is a rave review for my novel, Still Life of a Salesman. Thank you CanReads. canreads.ca/editorial-re...

After being continually disappointed by America for 10 years, I am not remotely optimistic that they will ‘do a Hungary’ in ’26 or ’28. I’m sorry to say they just don’t have it in them. (My opinion only, and I’m entitled to it.)

Please, Mr Trpmnp, learn Spanish, move to Venezuela and run for President there. Please please. I'm not even American, and I think it’s a great idea, one of your best. Ask Mel to dig out your Air Miles card. Go ahead. Ask her. Right now, while you wait for your Uber Eats.

Continuing to talk about impeaching TRmp is like continuing to demand the sun rise in the west.

Using AI to write your novel is like signing up for the Boston Marathon and showing up on your electric bicycle, and wondering why everyone is side-eying you.

How is it possible that the Iranian government is more literate in English than the US President and his entire cabinet? Fascinating...

I’m pretty sure I’m not in the E files. In case you were wondering. I don’t have any rich friends.

Sorry, I've been saving these musings over the weekend. I’ll stop now.

Winter is best enjoyed indoors.

Writing is easy. Selling is hard.

Even if AB could separate, which they can’t, the US would support them by making them a US territory, not a US state. So, no federal vote, and no control over their resources. The US will not permit AB to be a sovereign nation, period. Anyone who thinks otherwise is living in a dream world.

I know Salman Rushdie is most famous for 'Midnight's Children' and 'Satanic Verses', but I think his best books are 'The Moor’s Last Sigh' and 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'. I’m quite fond of Indian writers in general. 💙📚🖋️ #writing #LiteraryFiction #booksky #author #WritingCommunity

Booboo gives me the evil eye when I look at my phone.

Olympic snowboarding and women’s hockey! I’m into that.

I know I said I watch the Olympics, but…curling? Right up there with olympic carpet cleaning, I’m sorry to say. No offence to curlers and their fans.

The only time I watch televised sports is during the Olympics. So I won’t be so productive for the next couple of weeks.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only adult in the western hemisphere who hasn’t read To Kill a Mockingbird. I have no excuse, frankly, and I’m running out of years. I hear it’s good.

There’s a place for AI in our world, but not in creative writing. How can anyone call themselves a writer if AI does the work for them? I guess I’m too old to understand that frame of mind. 💙📚🖋️ #writing #LiteraryFiction #ebooks #paperbacks #kobo #booksky #canadian #author #indibook #WritingCommunity

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🖋️📚 I’m editing my latest novel. Always an exciting process for me. No major structural issues now, just ‘pushing the commas around.’

I lived in Alberta for a long time. I'm ashamed of what it's become. Smith's party is Not a Conservative Party. It's a MAGA party. It's an insult to real conservatives that they've appropriated that word, and are preventing the real C party from using the word Conservative. Shame.

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Recently, I've wondered if I'm being foolish or selfish or misguided by continuing to write novels for people to enjoy, while the world is on fire. Obsession is a strange beast.

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📚💙 I'm a Canadian novelist, new to bluesky. I'm looking forward to engaging with the writing community, and other concerned citizens of the world. Stay safe out there.