Rik Jespersen gave a nice write-up on Peril at Pinecone Rock in the Coast Reporter this weekend. You can read it here:

Maple Harbour kids at it again - Coast Reporter

Thanks Rik!

It's been a long wait, but the fourth book in the Maple Harbour Adventure series is now available. Books arrived at Talewind Books in Sechelt yesterday, and it is also available through Amazon. It should be available in other bookstores through Ingram Book Group in the next few days. Thanks to everyone who helped with early reviews and edits!

Book 4 in the Maple Harbour Adventures series is nearing completion. It now has a title - Peril at Pinecone Rock. The book went to the editor a few days ago and should be ready for printing some time in October. Getting closer!

It's been two years or so since the last time I did a school reading, with the pandemic putting a halt to things. So I was very happy that I was able to do one this week for Ms. Thomson's grade four class at Roberts Creek Elementary. We held the reading outdoors on a nice fall morning. As always, lots of great questions and eager young readers. Looking forward to more of these in the future.

All my books have sold out at the Gibsons Museum, so they asked me to come by and sign some more copies. Here I am signing them next to a hand liner, just like the one in The Mystery of the Missing Mask!

I just received 21 letters from the grade 4/5 students in Ms. Buckley's class at Puntledge Park Elementary in Courtenay. They have been reading my books in their class. It was great to hear how much they've enjoyed reading them. They seem to especially like solving the mystery and the parts about Meg.

Just finished the first draft of the next Maple Harbour adventure. Hope to have it on bookshelves by the fall!

I just received this nice bit of artwork from a young reader, showing a map of the area the kids explore in the book. Thanks, I love to receive things like this from my readers.

I'll be at the August 2nd Night Market at the Gibsons Public Market, selling copies of all the books in the Maple Harbour Adventure series. Stop by and say hello!

http://gibsonspublicmarket.com/2019-night-markets/

Night Markets are back! On Friday, August 2nd, from 4 – 10 pm, shop, eat, drink, and experience the true vibe of Coastal life. In addition to 40 outdoor vendors, all 8 Gibsons Public Market merchant businesses, as well as the Nicholas Sonntag Marine Education Centre, will be open for extended hours. 

I just realized that over 1000 paperback copies of Adventure on Whalebone Island have now been sold! That might not be Harry Potter type numbers, but for a local book in a limited market, its pretty good. Here's the next 1000!