RANDOM THOUGHTS AND RAMBLINGS ON WRITING! Bring on the suffering! That’s a running joke with writers, but I’m sure it is interpreted in many different ways. Like: It is through long periods of suffering from which we draw inspiration. Or: We suffer in our quest to earn our stripes. Maybe: We need to prove our …
BUT FIRST A BIT ABOUT YELLOWKNIFE In the winter of 2012, I went to the Northwest Territories to run the world’s longest ice road. It would be the beginning of a decade long affair with Canada’s north, it’s people, and the city of Yellowknife. There was so much undiscovered country, so much to see, and …
Welcome to the Sh!t Show! The Highwayman series isn’t my first flirtation with serial murder. In my first novel, THE EQUINOX, an evil spirit known as a skinwalker forms an unholy alliance with a pedophile child killer. The marrying of the supernatural and the real wasn’t all that hard because both creatures personify real evil …
The Leyak By M.J. Preston The Past – Highway 3, Northwest Territories She lay bleeding, her body, beaten, broken, violated in the worst possible way. The remains of her child cast out onto the frozen gravel, still warm, but without life. Inside her head—she heard the voice, liquid chanting—rained down upon her. Beckoning Come to …
PART III – AN IMPRESSION IN MURDER The Case of Russell Williams a serial killer in the making. On January 28, 2010, Jessica Lloyd went missing from her home in Belleville, leading the investigators to suspect foul play. Canvassing the neighvborhood for witnesses, police were alerted by a neighbor of a suspicious SUV parked beside …
That day started like any other on the ice. I was on my second season on the ice, running my third trip up the ice in 2013. The weather had been strange that year. Temperatures in the north warmed up―the previous day, the sun was out, and the roads which crossed the portages began to …
Ths week I am giving away a story that was originally published in an anthology called: CANOPIC JARS Tales of Mummies and Mummification. The story is called Run-off 31. It was published by Great Old Ones Publishing, and edited by Gregory L. Norris. It apperared alongside authors such as, H.P. Lovecraft, Gord Rollo, B.E. Scully, …
PART II – THE CASE OF THE COED KILLER When I decided to start the Highwayman series, I spent most of the creation process in the cab of a truck running up and down the road turning over ideas in my head. I coupled this with research, sometimes on audiobooks, reading true crime, and watching …
Yuri and the Wolves It’s no secret that I was an ice trucker. Between 2012 and 2016, I drove the world’s longest ice road pulling fuel from Yellowknife north to a couple of diamond mines just below the arctic circle. As a result, I’ve got a few stories to tell. This is my public memoir …
PART I – THE MONSTERS WHO WALK AMONG US I have always had an interest in true-crime and the enigma of serial murder. In writing, I often find myself drawn to the serial killer as the definitive monster. Mostly, because they’re real, which makes them more terrifying than DRACULA or the zombies of THE WALKING …