Back in the nineteen eighties, I was one of Canada’s top fashion models and one of the girls I worked with regularly was Ivana Winklemyr. The world was soon to know her better as Ivana Trump. Ivana and I did countless photo assignments and fashion shows together. We shared makeup artists and hairdressers. We stood…
After dealing with a serial killer in Binary Witness and drug trafficking in Code Runner, I wanted to bring a different kind of crime to Cardiff in Captcha Thief. I had been fortunate enough to hold my wedding reception at the National Museum of Wales, and the stunning Impressionist collection had caught my eye. The…
I remember daydreaming in college over 20 years ago, thinking of different ideas that I may want to write about one day. In fact, the initial idea for The Hidden Reality came to me while I was in history class learning about ancient Greece. It was not that the lecture was boring or that professor…
The ideal meaning of inspiration can have many definitions. Whether it is a pin for Pinterest or a post for Instagram, we try to relate it to our lives. But does it relate to our reality or our persuasive potential? As the media crowd airwaves with the potent details of current events, correctional surgery and…
I have been in love with writing since I first treasured the smell of paper and the flow of ink. Mom would read to me and I would ‘pretend to write’ on anything I could get my hands on. ‘Pretend to write’. That phrase haunts me still when I am asked to create a guest post…
I’m a journalist in my day job and many of my ideas are sparked from news stories. My first book, Hot Shade, was about two reporters who met during a plane crash and fell in love. My second book, Into the Heat, was about an Afghanistan war veteran who suffered from PTSD and rekindled a…
If I had to pinpoint that one moment, that nexus which propelled me to write this story, it had to be when I was awakened by the shrill ringing of my phone at 11 o’clock on a steamy August Saturday night. The caller was in tears and incoherent, but I recognized his voice. “Desmond, you’ve…
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It’s hard to remember now, as the crocuses bloom and green buds begin to swell on the trees, but 14 months ago, we thought winter would never end. In the winter of 2014-15, Massachusetts, where I live, was buried under record snowfall of 110.6 inches. And what was…
Giant Killers began as the final project for my doctorate in strategic leadership. The concepts in my book are twofold; a study of emotional intelligence and how God’s grace informs and empowers emotional intelligence. During my doctoral studies, emotional intelligence became my focus of study. I began to see it everywhere; especially the need for…
I almost hate to say this, but I became a writer almost by accident. I started writing later than a lot of authors, probably my mid-twenties, actually avoiding everything but the most basic English classes in high school and college to pursue a career in the sciences. But I was an avid reader, and I…
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