The Guelph Book Bash 2026

If anyone is free on Sunday November 8th, 2026, come to the Book Bash. I'll be there, selling volumes 1 & 2 of my novel THE LONG WAY BACK (original & alternate cover editions). Ray Stone has had enough. When a personal crisis shakes the 55-year-old pharmacist loose from his complacent Toronto life, he embarks on a spiritual journey to a distant country troubled by a minor civil conflict. Just the right speed for an amateur like him, he thinks, as he slips uneasily into a new career as a photo-journalist. But things are seldom what they seem. Ray quickly discovers that the truth of this land differs from the news reports back home. Federal control and authority have disintegrated and the country has been carved into the personal territories of ruthless warlords vying to overthrow the government. Given his lack of expertise, experience, or connections, Ray is baffled when he’s included in a small group of journalists selected for a coveted assignment: To enter a completely inaccessible t