FICTION

NOVELS

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(novel in progress)
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The Cilla Rose Affair (Spy thriller, fiction)
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It's 1991... two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall... and the spyworld is facing a radical shakeup. So, what do a pirate radio station, a long lost diary, a suspected double agent and the sudden death of Britain's best loved breakfast show DJ have to do with the London Underground and mysterious soundwaves underneath the Fitzroy Theatre? Canadian intelligence agent and television actor Evan Harris knows. And he's recruited his three sons to help him unmask the traitor deep within the British espionage community. The result is a sting operation not unlike a storyline from Evan's 1960s cult tv series, Spy Squad.

Cold Play (Fiction)
Forget everything you remember about "The Love Boat." It's 2011. It's Alaska. And ship's entertainer Jason Davey hates that theme song.

Forty-three year old Jason works as an entertainer aboard the tiny, aging cruise ship "Star Sapphire".

When one of Jason's followers on Twitter - a woman named Jilly, whose "constructed personality" acts as Jess's "Guardian Angel" - warns him that danger awaits on the upcoming voyage, Jason is sceptical - and wary.

But Jilly is not wrong. Over the next few days, Jason - who has run away to sea, consumed with guilt over the death of his wife in a fire caused by his discarded cigarette - crosses paths with an obsessed stalker, an alcoholic guitarist with a dicey past, and a beautiful but eccentric actress with murderously dark secrets.

When Jason embarks upon a tentative shipboard romance with travel agent Katey Shawcross, his stalker reacts with rage and jealousy, threatening harm.

Worse, when a deal to turn the ship into a floating hotel falls through, and plans are made to scrap her, the "Sapphire" seems to want to choose her own dramatic end...

Haunting Hamlet (Fiction)
Novel in Progress
(Based on existing screenplay)
A young woman who runs a website for an A-list actor takes on the impossible task of interviewing him when he appears in a musical production of Hamlet in London's West End. Her adventure takes a surprising turn when she discovers the identity of her biological father, changing her life in unexpected ways.

Persistence of Memory (Time Jump Adventure)
Novel in Progress
(Based on existing screenplay)
A young woman who travels back in time to 1825 England must convince her great (x6) grandmother to marry the right man... or there will be dire consequences...

Skywatcher (Spy thriller)
(Finalist in Seal Books First Novel Award)
Publisher: Bantam Books, 1989
ISBN-13: 978-0553280807

It all starts with a mysterious Russian woman with rainbow-
coloured spiked hair and granny boots. She thrusts a cheap
toy robot into the hands of an unsuspecting student and runs
off into the crowd on the university mall. Two hours later, she
falls to her death from the top of a high-rise building.

The police think it's suicide. But Christopher Robin Harris knows
better. Soon he finds himself in the middle of an awesome plot
that seems to have been lifted directly from one of his father's
old "Spy Squad" tv episodes.

For it turns out that Evan Harris is indeed a real spy - and Robin
and his two equally eccentric brothers have inadvertently walked
into the scene of a real life - and death - spy drama. And as far
as the free world is concerned, Robin's entrance into the family
business comes not a moment too soon.

The Cilla Rose Affair (Spy thriller)
Publisher: Writers Club Press/Iuniverse, 2001
ISBN-13: 978-0595192519

Also available on Amazon Kindle.

It's 1991... two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall... and the spyworld is facing a radical shakeup. So, what do a pirate radio station, a long lost diary, a suspected double agent and the sudden death of Britain's best loved breakfast show DJ have to do with the London Underground and mysterious soundwaves underneath the Fitzroy Theatre? Canadian intelligence agent and television actor Evan Harris knows. And he's recruited his three sons to help him unmask the traitor deep within the British espionage community. The result is a sting operation not unlike a storyline from Evan's 1960s cult tv series, Spy Squad.

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SHORT STORIES

Dietrich's Ash
(click on the link to read the short story)
(Okanagan Short Fiction Award Winner)
Published: Canadian Author & Bookman
Anthology: Pure Fiction (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Broadcast: CBC Radio, "Ambience"

Creatures from Greek Mythology
(click on the link to read the short story)
(Second Prize Winner, WQ Editors Prize)
Published: Cross-Canada Writers Quarterly

Tower of Power
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(First Prize, Annual Fiction Competition)
Published: Flare

True Confessions
Published: Green's Magazine