Novels
My debut novel, Venue 13, will be published in 2026 by Ravenstone (Turnstone Press). Read the full announcement here.
Venue 13 tells the story of actor and would-be theatre impresario Robert Laliberte, who buys a run-down building in downtown Winnipeg with the dream of turning it into a bring-your-own-venue space for productions in the annual Summer Theatre Festival, a.k.a. Skeeter Fest. Aside from grappling with technical problems and mounting debt, what Robert doesn’t know is the building is also haunted. And if the belligerent ghost has anything to say about it, nobody’s shows will go on.
Short fiction
- “Two Voices, One Song” is out now in On Spec magazine, 133, Vol. 35, No. 3. You can buy a digital copy from Weightless Books.
- “Swept Downstream” will be published in the Of Beasts & Bones anthology forthcoming from Inky Bones Press.
- “Nothing But What You Bring With You” appears in Carpe Noctem (Tyche Books)
- “In Open Air” appears in Leadership Gone Right (Farthest Star Publishing)
- “The Comments Gaze Also Into You” appears in Parallel Prairies: Stories of Manitoba Speculative Fiction (Great Plains Publications)
- “Not Fit to Print” appears in On Spec magazine
- “I’m Not Taking This Phantom Crap Anymore” appears in No Shit, There I Was (Alliteration Ink)
- “Night Class” appears in Corpus Deluxe: Undead Tales of Terror, Vol. 1 (Indie Authors Press)
- “Caged” appears in Guns and Romances (Crossroad Press)
- “Black Smoke and Water Lilies” is published in the new edition of Insignia Vol. 2: Chinese Fantasy Stories.
- “In Open Air” appears in Accessing the Future (FutureFire.net Publishing).
- “The Harsh Light of Morning” is published in Tesseracts 18: Wrestling With Gods (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing).
- “The Wolves of Vimy” appears in Kneeling in the Silver Light: Stories From The Great War (The Alchemy Press), as well as in French translation as “Les Loups de Vimy” in Ténèbres 2017
- “A Deeper Echo” appears in the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History (Crossed Genres Publications) and was podcast on Far-Fetched Fables (stream or download for free here).
Non-fiction
- I often interview authors about their work for Prairie Books Now.
- My op-ed on bike lanes, “No one will ever drive anywhere,” (in the spirit of Bob Newhart’s “Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball”) ran in Winnipeg Free Press, Dec. 26, 2024.
- I wrote about Indigenous soldiers in the First World War in “The Timber Wolves of War,” Winnipeg Free Press, Nov. 8, 2014.
- I wrote about 1940s Canadian comic-book superheroine Nelvana of the Northern Lights in “Nelvana: Canada’s forgotten superheroine,” Winnipeg Free Press, Nov. 10, 2013.
