Well, I’m getting excited – two more weeks until I’m on stage at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. Sunday, August 16, 2;30 p.m.

(Okay, by this time in two weeks I’ll be sitting on my hotel balcony having a glass of wine, grateful for the experience of being on stage, and relieved it’s all over with.)

This summer I’ve been working on my next novel, with the goal of finishing the rough draft by September. With the shelf like of books these days, I imagine there won’t be another festival appearance until the next book is out. If this the last hurrah for When is a Man, I couldn’t have picked a sweeter one – the Sunshine Coast is a wonderful place to be.

Hope you can stop by and check Doretta Lau, Mark Forsythe (of CBC’s BC Almanac) and I. And then stick around and catch Caroline Adderson, one of Canada’s best.

Bonus: the brilliant Kevin Chong will be on stage right before us at 1 pm.

See you soon.

A.