And the winner is…..

  Twitter New Follower Contest Winner Announcement!   Every new follower to my Twitter account @abidulka from Saturday, Sept 14 to Friday, Sept 20, 2013 was automatically entered to win a signed, full set of the 8 Russell Quant mysteries. First -thank you to...

New Twitter Follower Contest

  Like to read mysteries?   Could you find Russell Quant – the first, and perhaps only ex-cop, ex-farmboy, half-Ukrainian, half-Irish, world-travelling, wine-swilling, wise-cracking, gay, Canadian prairie, private eye being written about today anywhere...

The Lowdown on Author Readings

  Over the past ten years of my publishing career I have done countless readings, from Saskatoon to Los Angeles, Ann Arbor to Montreal, in bookstores, at a Cherry Festival, for book club meetings, at a convention for criminal justice professionals, at...

How important is Setting?

My recent website poll which just closed asked readers the question: Do you care about setting?     In addition to giving respondents the opportunity to give their own answers about where they prefer books to be set, the general answers went something like...

What bugs you?

My most recent website poll asked the question:   When reading a mystery, what bugs you the most?         The two top answers, each getting over 20% of the votes were:     1. Cliche     and   2) Not enough character...