A writer's brain is a uniquely marvelous place. There is nowhere quite like it.

I've always imagined my brain to be like a huge building full of doors. Each door leads to a different place and a different adventure. I have a really hard time being bored because there is always a door to open. Long bus rides don't worry me. Sitting through boring meetings - no problem.

When I look on the outside like I'm staring out a window or gazing off into space, in my head, I have walked up to one of those doors and stepped through. I might be following a Viking warrior on his first battle. Or I might have stepped onto a boxcar in the 1930s, feeling the wind and listening to the clackity-clack of the wheels on the rails. Or maybe I'm sitting in a carriage in 1860s Ottawa, or riding a horse on a ranch in southern Saskatchewan, or even following a Prince into a castle while he tries to steal an enchanted knife from an evil sorceress.

And when I need to, I reluctantly come back to the hallway in my mind, shut the door and leave those characters for another day. Then I go about my business, looking for all the world like a "normal" person, a person who isn't trying to guide a ship through a raging storm while avoiding the cannons from the enemy fort.

I am very pleased to let you know that Book 2 in the Dust and Devils Series, Sin and Salvation, is almost ready to go to print. I am just finishing the formatting and hope to have it out to you all by the middle of September.

In preparation for its release, I am going to offer you a sneak peek at the new back cover copy for Sin and Salvation. Enjoy!

“I just learned that Jacob Harrow has a son. And I’d bet it’d be easier to make the boy talk than his old man.”

Those words spoken by a stranger in the Edmonton jungle drive Jake Harrow to leave behind the place he now calls home and set out in earnest on the search for his father. Still battling his own memories that threaten to destroy him, Jake follows the trail from the back streets of Edmonton to the Vancouver shipyards, trying to stay one step ahead of his father's enemies that he now knows are searching for him. 

But a chance meeting in Northern Manitoba changes everything and Jake must decide whether he is willing to sacrifice his own life to save the life of another.