Today is May 1, 2025, book birthday for Blue Hours.

After decades of writing for young people, and publishing short fiction and memoir for adult readers, I’ve published a novel for adults with the wonderful publishing house Freehand Books.

Those two figures on the cover, on a beach in the evening, mountains in background, in the blue hour of the day, are father and son. You can see the motion in the boy, running. The uprightness of the father, even though he’s about to be knocked flat by life.

He’ll get up again, I promise.

I have two launching events, one in Ladner, BC, in the town in which I raised my boys, close to the beach on which we did our own running. And another event on Powell Street at a wonderful place called Lanalou’s. Both in May.

The ISBN of the book is 978-1-990601-89-7. That number makes it really easy to order from your favourite local book-seller. ‘Cus Jeff Bezos doesn’t need your money.