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Seems like a long time since I last entered anything here, but it's only been a week. I've noticed, though, that weeks pass very quickly, nowadays, so much so that I sometimes find myself wondering where all the Mondays through Thursdays went, because all that seems to be left is Fridays...

I'm heading off to BC's Sunshine Coast next weekend (August 12-15) to attend the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, in Sechelt, and to me that means High Summer and the opening of the annual LitFest and Conference season.

One of the best parts of being a writer, as far as I'm concerned, is that sometimes you get sneak previews of books that really excite you, and this is the time of year when people send me ARCs (Advance Readers' Copies)  in the mail, hoping that I'll read them and enjoy them and then say so in writing, in sufficient time for my comments to be used in or on the finished book by time of publication.

I was born within a few minutes' walk of the Wallace Monument in the village of Elderslie, in Renfrewshire, Scotland, and even as a small child I knew the story of Scotland's greatest Champion. All Scots kids did, of course, but living as close to the Monument as I did, I always