Stained Glass (For release January 2024)
Kyle Welland has been asked by his mother to complete the unfinished memoir of his great-great-grandparents Anna Armstrong and Christopher Newman. He sets about reconstructing their stories based on a collection of letters contained in an old tobacco tin. Synopsis & Readings
Body Art (Concept)
Paul Welland finds himself leading a double-life, commuting between the executive suite of a major oil patch player in Calgary and—as an infiltrator—the funky domain of a radical environmental group in Vancouver. He falls in love with ‘body artist’ Samantha Cavendish and ends up lying both ways to keep his worlds from colliding.
+15 (Concept)
In post apocalyptic Calgary the most affluent citizens and those who provide services for them, live in a totally secure, hermetically sealed environment of skyscrapers connected by above ground walkways and heavily armed trains. Outside this protected zone life is ‘nasty, brutish and short’, humanity reduced to paleolithic forms of subsistence on a diseased and depleted landscape. Can the civilized elite hold the barbarians at bay forever? Does the ‘outworld’ have something the cocooned nobility of the +15 lacks? Those are the questions +15 will explore.
Soldier Boy (Complete Draft)
The sequel to Josh & the Magic Vial explores the horrific abuse experienced by child soldiers. Josh, Millie and Ian are up against Sirus Blackstone once again. Released from Desolation Isle, where he had been imprisoned in Josh & the Magic Vial, Blackstone concocts a scheme to recruite child soldiers for Prince Vortigen and to get revenge on Josh and friends by destroying the headquarters of ASTRAL in Vancouver.
The Feel Gravity (Short Stories)
A collection of short stories that explores forces physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual from the perspective of men in the 21st Century. Feminism, the dissolution of colonialism and the reorientation of spirituality have been defining forces in North America for at least two generations, and will continue to be drivers in the coming decades. Adjusting and adapting to these and other new realities will be undercurrents running through The Feel of Gravity.
Einstein Dog (Published, Thistledown Press, 2009)
Bertrand Smith’s father, Alex, thinks he’s making the world a better place by developing a breed of super-intelligent canines. But SMART Dogs turn out not to be such a good idea when a global arms dealer decides to ‘dognap’ the experimental litter to market as his next secret weapon. First published in 2009, Einstein Dog is sold out and up for a rewrite.