Rona Altrows

Two sessions I attended at Comic Expo over the weekend left a deep impression. One featured the great Marvel comic book creator Stan Lee; the other, Sir Patrick Stewart, a.k.a. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation. What…

I had a terrific Introductory Genetics professor at McGill, Dr. John Southin, who extolled the virtues of “pure cerebration.” He talked about how often scientific progress was made through the power of thinking. In the writing world, I think too…

It’s been some time since I posted to this page. My apologies. I guess I’m not familiar or comfortable enough with communicating this way, so I appreciate your patience. In any case, here’s what I’ve been up to. Working on…

This past Sunday I had the privilege of visiting with another  book club. What a terrific experience, to be among a group of people who buy one’s books, appreciate the work that goes  into the creation of  books and genuinely…

As my colleague Naomi K. Lewis and I read, re-read, and re-reread the submissions to our shyness anthology, it becomes apparent that some submissions are just not right for the book. When that happens, we must write a letter of…

Within the past few hours I have received kind comments about my work from a female reader in her eighties and a male reader in his twenties. How good of them to contact me and what a happy writer I…

Here’s the link to my recent e-pub, “General James Wolfe’s Last Letter to his Mother,” which is part of the online supplement to the Freshwater Pearls Anthology of the Alexandra Writers’  Centre Society.

I had an article ready to go for a magazine a few days ago. I’d done my best writing it, but in my heart, I knew something essential was missing, probably at the start. Enter the editor, who made a…

Saddened to learn of the death of Robert Kroetsch.