Dispatch from the New Digs

The last two months have been quite busy, I must say, so apologies to those happening by looking for some interesting tidbits. I've moved, attended the Consumer Electronic Showcase in Las Vegas, as well as organizing inservices at my day job. February has found me presenting at the Teacher Convention but also somehow managing to resume swimming a few times a week.

Most promising though has been the fact that I've finally conquered a particularly troublesome plot restructuring in Games of Chance and am in the process of finishing revisions on the final chapter. I'm also considering a slight modification that could result in the formerly lost Russian chapter finding it's way back into the novel. I'm pleased to see that so many of you have stopped by to check it out.

Thus, it makes me happy to announce that while in Las Vegas, and taking a temporary break from Games of Chance, I started formal work on my next novel-in-progress. It had been originally planned as a love story based on growing up in Northeast Calgary, but it seems to have taken on a life of its own. It focuses more on my time at Calgary's downtown St. Mary's High School. It's still a love story, but the plot centers around the disappearance of the two lovers in the wake a teacher's apparent death. I'm over fifty pages in and hope to have a first draft done by summer.