The most challenging thing about pursuing a career as an author is the lack of structured support. With no official guidelines, the only true markers of success, is success itself. Whether it’s having an article published online or becoming a Best Selling author,the fulfillment of most writers ambitions relies very much on some sort of final outcome. During my…
Authors Note: This is the an interview with an extraordinary human named Sonya Sangster. Both our families raised us in Tsawwassen, a small town 45 minutes south of Vancouver. Her views and opinions strongly resonate with me, and I am proud to have had this chance to question her. After knowing Sonya for almost 30 years, I wanted to…
Here is a great post from my high school math tutor, Elissa Joy Watts. She has always been an inspiration to me (and I think most people who know her would say the same), and I’m honored to have inspired her post. If you want to read “Reach for the sky. It’s worth it”, click the image below.
As I am writing this post, I am close enough to ride a bicycle to Angkor Wat Temple, in Siem Reap Colombia. But this story began last year when I flew to Bogota Colombia to finish writing Five Weeks in the Amazon. After a month I decided Medellin was going to be my next destination. I wasn’t sure where I…
When I was a child I would hear The Vancouver Sun hit the cement in front of my house every morning before I got up for school. Next, my mom would knock on my bedroom door and tell me it was time to wake up and take a shower. When I was a teenager I was always tired in…
Vision and Verse is a place for art and authors. It’s about thenew artists and authors of today as well as the established creative minds of the past. It’s about inspiration. This is from a quick interview they posted on their site. My favorite question was: What advice would you give someone who aspired to be…
I got an email from thebookdesigner.com that the E-Book cover for Five Weeks in the Amazon won the Gold-Star Award for the month of December in their monthly E-Book cover contest. Of course, all credit goes to Rory Doyle who was able to take my constant desire to be hands on and deliver an amazing product. Here…
