Month: October 2025

  • This Site Is Evolving And Improving

    The sky, a Saskatchewan sky as dawn breaks, is always breath-taking. Each day is filled with potential. My life as a writer is in constant change as I get older [not necessarily any wiser] likely due to the fact that my best-before date is approaching. I took this photo this morning while waiting for the coffee to be ready. No wonder why they call this place the “land of the living skies.”

    My book, Time’s Children, has been submitted to Saskatchewan Book Awards in two categories. I will find out sometime next spring if I made the shortlist and how well the book fared in the competition. It’s the first time I have risked such a venture. There’s no question, I am most comfortable with writing and editing than in promoting my written work.

    Talking about my books, including Time’s Children, I am slowly adding the titles to this new version of my author website. I have begun by cleaning up the menu which can be seen above. Keeping it simple is decidedly much better than trying to say everything at once which overloads the menu, likely discouraging visitors from checking out the options.

    So far, I am pleased with the changes though I would have preferred to have this blog section not on the frontpage. Regardless, it doesn’t really matter as long as you come and read and hopefully find a book you are interested in reading. Now, it’s time to get back to work on making this an even friendlier and better site.

    Robert

  • I Have My Own Web Server

    Well, since it is almost time to renew my subscription for webhosting service, I decided it was the perfect time to avoid paying $112/year and use my old laptop as a server – a temporary server for the present time. There was no way I could do this on my own, so I had my son-in-law, Lawrence, do the heavy lifting with me serving as a cheering squad on the sidelines.

    It is a big learning curve, but the deed is now done. What you see is my relocated website to my Dell server using Ubuntu 22.04 and CyberPanel and WordPress-dot-org. I don’t have all the images from the past, but that is sure to change in the near future.

    On the writing front, I am now in the running for two Saskatchewan Book Awards for the last published novel, Time’s Children. Wish me luck. As well, I have just finished the first draft of a very different novel.

    The new novel is tentatively titled: Ink Spilled From an Eagle’s Cry. It is literary fiction with a bit of a Jungian and an Indigenous framework. I guess it could be thought of as a Jungian Romance.

    The Indigenous aspect is based on the Seven Grandfathers’ Teachings of Anishinaabe [Ojibwe] culture. This is going to be the first novel I will attempt to publish using the traditional publishing process. If accepted, it will likely be a few years to actually become available for reading. Wish me luck