Category Archives: Coach House
Revisions = in
The site has been a bit silent lately, but it’s only because I’ve had my head down, working on the revisions to The Dead Kid Detective Agency 2: Secret of the Ooze (title pending). For a few weeks, I did little else besides work at Coach House, come home and revise. But I’m feeling very [...]
Also posted in books, comics, Dead Kid Detective Agency, movies, Quarter-Life Crisis
Tagged Authors Booking Service, Manborg, Silver Birch 2013, Steven Kostanski
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Dull man featured on Toronto Is Awesome
It’s been a week of good news. On Thursday, I was featured on the new website, Toronto Is Awesome, in the ‘Image Seeks Words‘ column. The column focuses on illustrators, comic book makers, designers and all others who pair words and images together.
Talented writer (and author of DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains) Natalie Zina Walschots [...]
Also posted in books, comics, Dead Kid Detective Agency, DOOM, interviews, Quarter-Life Crisis
Tagged dennis miller, image seeks words, natalie zed, norman rockwell, toronto is awesome
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Dead Kid # 2 in the can, DOOM off the presses!
At times, it seemed it was impossible, but the second manuscript of The Dead Kid Detective Agency, tentatively titled Dial ‘M’ for Morna, is complete!
Well, not quite. I’ve handed in the manuscript to ECW Press. Most of the editorial process is still ahead, and while I think the book is in pretty good shape, I’m [...]
Also posted in books, comics, conventions, cover, Dead Kid Detective Agency, DOOM, movies, Quarter-Life Crisis, SketchKrieg, TCAF
Tagged dial m for morna, insomniac press, TCAF, The Raid
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‘Rollicking Good Fun’
Growing up, I used to see a commercial for a musical (Guys and Dolls, maybe?) that deemed the production a ‘rolling, rollicking juggernaut of joy.’ This recent review of The Dead Kid Detective Agency in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record from Susan Fish is almost as good as that:
‘Let’s hope this book is the start of a [...]
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Tagged calgary herald, dance cave, erin balser, k-w record, no one writes to the colonel, reviews, rollicking, toronto standard, words worth books
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