From the Avaaz.org site

Quietly, globally, billions of bees are dying, threatening our crops and food. But if Bayer stops selling one group of pesticides, we could save bees from extinction.  Go to the Avaaz site below to sign the petition which will get delivered tomorrow.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/bayer_save_the_bees_db/?cl=1763276834&v=13898

I’m honoured that The Last Stoic has now been added to the collections of the Library of the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario.  Cadets at the RMC will be familiar with Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations.  In the course of researching The Last Stoic I looked for a copy of The Meditations in the used bookstores downtown and they all said that any copies they get are snapped up by RMC cadets.  For them, it is required reading.

The Terror of Dracula, starring Terry Wade, is now playing at Kingston’s Screening Room (http://www.moviesinkingston.com/) – premiere tonight.

I’ll be presenting The Last Stoic to the Kingston Arts and Letters Club on April 10th at 7PM at the Kingston Yacht Club (1 Maitland St., Kingston ON).

The Last Stoic is now available for purchase on the Victimless Capitalism website.  Victimless Capitalism is a website founded by Ron Hawkins, singer/songwriter/painter and frontman of Lowest of the Low, as a grassroots, e-commerce portal for independent musicians, artists, and writers.  It’s an honour to have the first book to be offered on the site.

http://www.victimlesscapitalism.com/Details.cfm?ProdID=135&category=25

I’ll be presenting The Last Stoic to the Queen’s Institute for Lifelong Learning (QUILL) on Sunday, January 15th, at 2PM as part of their Sunday Lecture Series.

The talk is entitled “The Last Stoic – A Fictional Account of the Parallels between Ancient Rome and Modern America”

I’ll be reading from The Last Stoic today, Fri. Jan. 6th at 4PM, on CFRC 101.9 FM.  I’ll be speaking with Bruce Kauffman on his show “finding a voice”.  His show this week features interviews/readings with 3 recently published poets/authors – myself, Tara Kainer and Kathryn MacDonald – with a bit of music thrown in.

The show can also be heard, and is archived, online at www.cfrc.ca

I will be speaking to Nancy Bullis of the radio program HOWL (on CIUT FM – University of Toronto radio) and reading from The Last Stoic this Tuesday at 10:20PM EST.

I’m giving away two copies of The Last Stoic on Goodreads…

Working on a novel set in Kingston between 1820 and 1840, provisionally entitled The Old King’s Head, the name of a tavern from the era.

One tavern among very many.

78 taverns in 1812, servicing a population of 2250 and 1500 soldiers.  In 1842 Montreal with a population of 45 000 had 220 licensed premises.  Kingston, with less than a quarter of the population (8-9000) had more than half that many (136).

Apparently Kingston is still a hospitality centre, with one of the highest restaurants per capita of any city in Canada.