The Loyalist is coming!
The Loyalist is my great-great-great-great-grandfather who came to be known as Michael Eisan, though he had many names over the course of...
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Dec 9, 2013
Successful Launch
I wanted to say thank you to all the people who showed up at my launch at First Metropolitan United on Friday. It was great to have so...
Dec 4, 2013
Countdown to Book(s) Launch
Just a reminder that I will be launching two books this Friday, December 6th at 1:00 at First Metropolitan United Church on the corner of...
Oct 10, 2013
Successful launch
It’s great to be back in Victoria after spending a few weeks in Edmonton where I launched by books. If you came out to one of the two...
Sep 24, 2013
Edmonton launches
My visits to Edmonton are more about descendants than ancestors: my three children and now three grandchildren live here. So my time is...
Aug 27, 2012
New Book on Smashwords
I think this book is actually my favourite in the series. I also think it is the least commercially marketable. It begins with a rather...
Aug 15, 2012
Creating a Book Cover
I’m editing Letters from a Belfast Gardener in preparation for publishing it on Smashwords. The next step is to prepare a cover. I’m...
Aug 9, 2012
My first book on Amazon.com
I’m excited to announce that you can now buy a hard copy of my book The Serpentine Garden Path from Amazon.com This is a prequel to A...
May 28, 2012
The Difficulty of Titles
As you know, my novel A Garden in the Wilderness was published by Borealis Press recently. It did not always have that title. I...
Apr 3, 2012
Meeting people
It has been great getting positive feedback from readers of my book A Garden in the Wilderness. I don’t suppose that people who hate it...
Oct 5, 2010
An Early Columbine
On April 12, 1792 , armed with five pistols, eight boys declared war on the Principal and Patrons of their school in Belfast, Ireland....
Sep 28, 2010
Heroes of Ulster
There once was a brother and sister who lived in Belfast at the end of the eighteenth centry– Henry Joy and Mary Anne McCracken. They...
Sep 21, 2010
The Irish Years
John and Susan Dean lived in Northern Ireland from 1790-1795. They left because of the political situation. If you think the troubles...
Jul 22, 2010
The Importance of Memoir
What treasures do you keep hidden in your memory that future generations would love to uncover? In my blog, I have already told how I...
Mar 9, 2010
Susan Kirke Dean: Revolutionary
Yesterday was International Women’s Day. It reminded me how far we’ve come as women in the west even since I was a girl. But we should...
Mar 5, 2010
The Pleasure Gardener’s Companion
I was doing some genealogical research, you know, dry dates of marriages and deaths, when I came across a juicy story. I have been...
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