Renaissance Writer

And now for something different: an art show. “Facial Hair,” portraits by Dominique LaBrosse. Since the real show is only available to local people, the photographer has given permission to post some of the works here, on the understanding that they are the intellectual property of Dominique Labrosse Photography, and permission to use them in…

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This story is a love triangle between Christina, a hesitant magician’s assistant, Reynaldo the Magificent, her boss, and Devon, the resident doctor who suspects her bruises may not be the rehearsal accidents she considers them. If you ever harboured a sneaking suspicion that a woman who gets into an abusive relationship has some kind of…

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Here I go, creating new classifications of writing again. If anything, this book should fall into a genre called “Cozy International Mystery.” It has all of the trappings of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne series, but the sex, violence and gratuitous non-stop action are  all toned down. There is more time spent on characterization, social setting and…

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When I was teaching I mentored a student teacher of First Nations heritage. One day he sat down on a chair and gathered the students around him on the floor to listen. And then he proceeded to blow the lesson. He was doing everything wrong, and I wondered what I was going to tell him…

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This story is rooted in a disagreement between the gods of the Norse and the gods of the Plains Indians. But the cooler heads of the metaphysical world have decided that the good old ways are counterproductive, and have decided to short-circuit the old violent methods of their contemporaries by inserting an element of negotiation into the…

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I hope Linton Robinson doesn’t shoot me for saying this, but there ought to be another book genre: Masculine Romance. I mean, if you look at generic Romances, what do you see? The fantasies of women, including a token amount of romance, a good dollop of action, and a great deal of sex. There are…

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