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. Margaret Cannon in today’s Globe and Mail called it:

“[an] excellent debut novel… What works are the two likeable and convincing doctors and the scary plot. Pennie’s message – that no matter how safe our world seems, it’s still very fragile – is timely and true.”

And this just in! The original print run has almost sold out and my publisher, those talented folks at ECW Press, have ordered a second printing, bless them.

Thank you all for your enthusiastic support and for going out and purchasing copies with your heard-earned, after-tax income. Of course, sales figures are not the only measure of the value of a novel, but a second printing is just the boost I need to keep me working on the next Zol and Hamish outing. If I don’t get bogged down — or laid up — by an epidemic of real-live H1N1 swine flu, Zol and Hamish will be back on the bookshelves next year.