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Author Archives: superuser

Judging a Book By Its Cover (and loving it)

Posted bysuperuserJanuary 19, 2023Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Judging a Book By Its Cover (and loving it)

What We Keep

Recently I paid an enormous sum of money to fly back to the area of Canada I come from. I wasn’t born in Halifax, Nova Scotia but most of my family lives there now. It is where my mother chose to spend her final days on earth. It is also the place where my sister …

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Posted bysuperuserOctober 6, 2022October 6, 2022Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on What We Keep

Travel Snippets

On a French road trip a few years ago, I was travelling from Carcassonne to Verzeille with a friend when we pulled over in a tiny spot called Pomas. We walked around for a few moments and passed by a man with a serious expression and even more serious beard. As his stare followed us …

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Posted bysuperuserApril 5, 2022Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Travel Snippets

Another Ides, Come and Gone

March 15th was the Ides of March. For some reason I embrace this date in history like St Patrick’s Day or one of those bank holidays that give us a four-day weekend. I look forward to it, perhaps because I had a pretty good teacher in high school for this period of history. Maybe because …

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Posted bysuperuserMarch 17, 2022Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Another Ides, Come and Gone

Merry Christmas to Me

So, I’ve bought myself a leather biker jacket. I’ve wanted one for a while, and thought I deserved a Christmas treat. The company selling it had a 20% off sale, so I ordered it. I felt both exhilarated and guilty, the way I sometimes do when I shop. Guilty at spending money on myself. Exhilarated …

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Posted bysuperuserDecember 24, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Merry Christmas to Me

My First Attempt At Casting

The publisher who bought the audio rights to my novel sent me a questionnaire awhile back, asking if I had any ideas on who I wanted as a narrator. I thought about it for a second, thinking how much I loved Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders, or Tom Hardy in, well, anything, when I realised …

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Posted bysuperuserNovember 17, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on My First Attempt At Casting
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