Book Signing in Canmore, New Year's Eve

I'll be at Cafe Book's on Canmore's Main Street from 3-5pm on December 31st. I'm there to support my favorite local bookseller, connect with old friends and maybe sell a few books to folks who didn't get everything they wanted for Christmas this year. If you're in the Bow Valley for New Year's come by and share some holiday cheer and say hello.

Have a Killer Christmas

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the activist on your list? Know somebody who cares about wildlands and wildlife but doesn't want to be hit over the head with an environmental message every time they pick up a book? Or maybe, like me, you are a closet crime fiction junkie and want a mystery with a message!

Consider giving The Cardinal Divide: A Cole Blackwater Mystery this Christmas. In The Cardinal Divide Cole Blackwater reluctantly finds himself solving the mystery that surrounds the murder of the manager of a coal mine on the boundary of Jasper National Park, Alberta. Cole must exonerate his friend who has been charged with the killing, and find the real killer, to save the the Cardinal Divide and the wildlands and wildlife that the mine will destroy.

"You are good! This book deserves a large audience," says Robert Bateman, wildlife artist and educator.

Order The Cardinal Divide by emailing me right now and I'll sign a copy to who-ever you are giving the gift to (give me the correct spelling of their name, please) and send it to you in the next week. Total cost to you will be $25 including postage. I'll donate $5 of that to the Sierra Club BC to boot!

Christmas doesn't get much better than that.

Times Colonist "Eco-Activism Goes Undercover"

My thanks to Steve Carey, the environment reporter at the Victoria Times Colonist" for this great story on The Cardinal Divide, and employing fiction to tell an environmental tale. Steve's story takes a look at the mystery genre and how other writers are using it to convey important messages about making the world a better place.