The Whole She-Bang has landed!

It’s here! The Whole She-Bang, a collection of short crime fiction by 15 Sisters in Crime Canada writers, is now up for grabs on Amazon, Smashwords and in paperback.

One of the stories in the anthology is “Crossing Over” — by yours truly. I’m thrilled to part of this collection. And doesn’t it have a fabulous cover?

All 20 stories were selected by a blind judging process, and Janet Costello deserves a huge round of applause for all the time and effort she put into editing and formatting the collection. Janet is one dedicated lady!

We’ll be celebrating The Whole She-Bang with no less than three launches. The first is tomorrow evening, Thursday Oct. 18, at the Toronto Public Library’s Northern District Branch, 40 Orchard View Blvd., Toronto, 7 p.m.

The second is on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2 p.m., at Sleuth of Baker Street bookstore, 907 Millwood Rd., Toronto.

And the third is in Ottawa next Wednesday, Oct. 24: Greenboro Library, 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr., 7 p.m.

Steve Shrott, one of my fellow writers in The Whole She-Bang (“The Job”), and I will also be reading at a couple of Toronto libraries next month. But more about that later.

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POV matters!

Today author Morgen Bailey in Northampton, Eng., hosts me on her blog. Morgen is multi-genre author and a prolific blogger who posts daily on a variety of writer-related topics. I

shared my thoughts with her and her followers on point of view, a topic dear to my heart. I am convinced that going with the first person POV was the most important decision I made in writing Safe Harbor. Read about how I came to this decision here.

Kind words from Jack Batten!

I’ve arrived! Jack Batten, the Toronto Star‘s renowned crime fiction reviewer, takes on Safe Harbor today. Here’s what he says:

Jack Batten

Somebody’s trying to kill a 7-year-old Toronto kid named Tommy. His mother has already been murdered, and the person summoned to Tommy’s defence happens to be Pat. She’s a 40ish widow with two university-age daughters, a good job as a financial planner, and a house in Moore Park. To protect Tommy, Pat finds herself dealing with a Fine Old Ontario Family and with some guys who act a lot like Middle Eastern terrorists. She isn’t sure which group is more daunting.

McCracken’s first novel offers a coherent structure, an exact feel for the Toronto locales, and, in Pat, a hugely attractive sleuth figure.

Wow! Jack’s words have made my year!

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