http://rosspennie.ca/site TAINTED, a Zol Szabo medical mystery Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:11:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For my wife Lorna and me, 2009 started and ended with two icons of our teenage years: Vietnam and Paul McCartney. In between, our year was punctuated with friendships, for which we are very grateful. Now that the kids have left the house, we have more time for friends, which ... http://rosspennie.ca/site/338/ It's tricky sustaining interest in a book when it's sold out. That was the happy situation TAINTED found itself in for most of July. But now it's back in a second printing -- a high-five to the good people at ECW Press. A couple of inconsistencies in small details have ... http://rosspennie.ca/site/great-time-in-owen-sound-and-tainteds-second-printing-arrives/ When you write a novel, especially your first, you have no idea how it's going to be received -- by your friends, your family, a publisher (if you're lucky), the reading public, the critics. I'm thrilled, and humbled, to say that TAINTED is being very well received in lots of places. ... http://rosspennie.ca/site/gratifying-responses-to-tainted/ It’s seven thirty on Saturday morning, and I’ve just returned home from the second-ever, all-night Ancaster-Dundas “Relay for Life” sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society. My wife Lorna has been the event’s co-chair these past two years, working with a committee of a dozen talented and tireless women – and ... http://rosspennie.ca/site/cancer-societys-relay-for-live-bringing-out-the-best/ Tolstoi wrote, in War and Peace: “The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.” I’ve learned that his words hold true for writers as well as soldiers. More than anything, the completion of a novel to the standard required for publication requires patience. There’s the slogging through ... http://rosspennie.ca/site/an-epidemic-of-misinformation/ Our "Tainted" book launch celebration on Wednesday April 15 at the Ancaster Old Town Hall was a great success. The venue is charming in an olde worlde sort of way, with a clock tower, limestone walls, and high cove ceilings. The party was a team effort, masterminded and mostly executed ... http://rosspennie.ca/site/a-tainted-launch-celebration/ This is the first day for my website. I'll be posting blogs from time to time, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy reading Tainted, the debut mystery for  Zol Szabo and Hamish Wakefield. http://rosspennie.ca/site/welcome-to-my-site/ By HEATHER IBBOTSON, EXPOSITOR STAFF Brantford Expositor April 2, 2009 Soon after assuming his new post as an infectious disease specialist at Brantford General Hospital in 2003, Dr. Ross Pennie learned of two local cases of a deadly and particularly frightful brain disease. The cases "gripped me with terror," Pennie said. He ... http://rosspennie.ca/site/brantford-expositor-bgh-doctor-developing-second-career-as-novelist/