A late April miscellany...

Good morning / afternoon / evening world!
All Remaining Warmth Was Escaping is "out" and published. "Warmth" is the follow-up to Within This Darkness in my Douro-Zamość trilogy, which is mostly set in Canada (the "Douro" part) but has a timeline that goes back to WWII Poland (the "Zamość" part). I do not have a Polish background, but I taught English there in the 1990s, and that experience seems to have affected my creativity. Close Your Eyes also had a Polish connection, or at least a central European connection.

I am really grateful to my friend Mark for doing the art for this cover, after previously doing the art for Within This Darkness. Mark paints by hand, usually on woodboard, and after he and I settle on the piece we like, I send a photo of his piece of art to a cover designer, who uses the photo as a base and lays the other elements on top. There is a lot of winter 'bleakness' in this book, and so I had asked Mark to attempt a "lost in a snowstorm" feeling, which is how the "look" for this cover originated.

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After the giveaway I mentioned in a previous post, plus some other mailings I had arranged, physical copies of "Warmth" have recently been put into the mail to various corners of the world. I'm very much a "print" kind of guy, and I honestly find it moving, to think of print copies of my books being on people's bookshelves in Australia and Germany and so on. A friend of mine did a cruise to the Antarctic this spring, and had her copy of Within This Darkness with her on that cruise - so I am more delighted than I should be to know that one of my books has been to Antarctica! :)

Otherwise, after having been laid up most of the winter with a fractured ankle, and not doing my daily walks, I am indeed mobile again and doing my normal morning walks to work. All three of these pictures are from late April 2026, and in fact are almost all from the exact same spot on my local waterfront. 
Best wishes and be well everyone.