South Branch Scribbler: Another fantastic year has come and gone! Read the highlights.

Saturday, 27 December 2025

Another fantastic year has come and gone! Read the highlights.

Wow!

I am so grateful for all the visitors and readers and a special thank you to all the authors and creatives who shared the news of their stories and art.

263,000 page views!

Top Five posts.

Luke Beirne

March 8.

670 page views.

If you missed it, please go HERE.

Casey Shelley

February 22.

408 page views.

Please go HERE.

Completely Shattered.

A novel by Allan Hudson

January 18.

368 page views.

Please go HERE.

Bernard Bourque

February 28.

332 page views.

Please go HERE.

Yvonne Belliveau.

March 22.

306 page views.

Please go HERE.

The five top Page views.

Reviews - 2760

Father - a novella - 1380

About me - 1310

Pick of the Week - 1230

The Shattered Series - 1210

So, what else happened, you ask?

I published two novels this year. The first is a compilation of the 4 Shattered stories featuring Detective Josephine (Jo) Naylor.

The novellas were joined into one novel with 4 parts covering the original series.

Shattered Figurine

(24 ratings. 14 reviews)

Shattered Lives

Shattered Dreams.

Shattered - The Final Act.

Detective Josephine (Jo) Naylor receives an email telling her where to find the next body.

The messenger tells her “… only you can stop this madness…” Discovering a shattered

figurine on the corpse, she’s overwhelmed by the possibility it might be the one she sold in

a yard sale. If so, she knows who the killer could be. She prays she is wrong.

In pursuing the criminal, she uncovers her worse nightmare.

Now she’s on the run. Thailand. Paris. New Zealand.

Will she ever be able to return home?

Please go HERE.

I sent Warrant Officer Stefan Kravchenko of the Royal Air Force Service Police on another caper.

1942

Camp Debert is an army base being built next door to Royal Canadian Air Force Base in Debert, Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada in 1942. Thousands of thousands of men and women will pass through on their way to Europe. Units will be mustered, weapons handed out and training for war. The contractors are erecting buildings as fast as they can.

The new mess on the army base is partially completed until work stops when the foreman finds a dead body hanging from the rafters. Not a soldier, but an airman.

Everything is hush-hush. The commanding officer has asked for the investigation to be handled by Warrant Officer Stefan Kravchenko of the Air Force Service Police. He’s ordered to Camp Debert, immediately. Upon arrival he discovers the scene is all wrong. The medical examiner suggests it may look like a suicide, but …

Read an Excerpt HERE.

I had the good fortune to join nine other authors contributing to the premier issue of the Elemental Series.

Earth, An Anthology, is the first in a compelling four part series that celebrates our

planet in a smorgasbord of unforgettable short stories.

Ten best-selling and award-winning authors who call the North Atlantic home, share

their vivid imaginations in these tales of intrigue and adventure. From potato farm

mayhem; investigating mysterious jagged trenches; a voice from the past, a grim

discovery, and a quest for a lost sword, to life lessons; a jagged trenches;

seductive sparkle and fire; questioning the balance between good and bad; and

someone – or something – that threatens the existence of Warden McCabe — Earth,

An Anthology, is a treasure trove of pure entertainment.

So tuck into your favourite armchair and experience our world as never before.

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Earth.

Earth, An Anthology, is the first in a compelling four part series that celebrates our planet in a smorgasbord of unforgettable short stories. Ten best-selling and award-winning authors who call the North Atlantic home, share their vivid imaginations in these tales of intrigue and adventure. From potato farm mayhem; investigating mysterious jagged trenches; a voice from the past; a grim discovery, and a quest for a lost sword, to life lessons; seductive sparkle and fire; questioning the balance between good and bad; and someone – or something – that threatens the existence of Warden McCabe — Earth, An Anthology, is a treasure trove of pure entertainment. So tuck into your favourite armchair and experience our world as never before. Please click on the image.

A Box of Memories.

A collection of short stories. Many of the short stories herein are inspired by memories I have of events in my life or related events I’ve witnessed or read about. Family is important to me so many stories are about relationships, love, sharing and giving, overcoming difficulties. Read about an older man and an abandoned baby. His last days. Three men acting like boys. Ten year old boys and the trouble they get into. The grueling work of dismantling ships by hand. Retirees with too much time on their hands. The dangers of shopping in Outer Space. Visiting a Food Bank. A covered wagon with a family and all of their possessions. Escaping slaves. Seniors with nothing to eat. The revenge of the wasps. Returning to the country of your birth. A Honey Trap. A detective that discovers crimes too close to home.

Spring Paths. The anthologies continue.

A love story. A story about family...

Jeb Coyne, proprietor of Coyne’s Confectionary, will have been widowed for two years tomorrow. Tending to his daily business takes his mind off the looming anniversary for a moment, as do his customers, whether cheerful or grumpy. But he’s never felt so alone. With the workday finished, Jeb is a few minutes from locking the doors. He goes out to bring in the sign board his father made and is interrupted by a tiny voice asking if he is closing. Olivia Fletcher stands before him, a teenager with wet strands of hair across her cheek, a baby in her arms. This chance meeting will change both of their lives forever. Click on the photo to learn more. TY.

The Alexanders. Vol. 2 1921 - 1925

The Alexander Saga continues. Dominic has his ups and downs as life continues in his new country. His business is growing. His wife is expecting their first child. He often wonders of the woman he saw in Halifax. The Roaring 20’s bring speakeasys, jazz, flappers, a booming stock market, disregard for prohibition. Everyone who can is investing in the future. Europe is rebuilding after the war and supplies from North America are in high demand. Will Dominic get involved with the investing frenzy or will caution prevail? The words of his late Uncle Duff ring loudly in his mind. “Watch those pennies, lad. Don’t waste your money on foolish things.” Will Dominic’s decisions keep the business intact? Please click on the photo.

Vigilantes -

Another Drake Alexander Adventure. The master vintner at Chateau Lambert Estates, Jean-Paul Chouinard, stares up the rise at the family cemetery, where the darling of the house was laid to rest yesterday. The grave site is surrounded by four men and a woman. The people whose service Mireille Lambert was in when she died. One of them was her lover. One of them is Drake Alexander. Chouinard knows what they do. He knows who Alexander is. He hears the whispers. Vigilantes. He grieves knowing the brothers who are responsible for his daughter’s death twenty years ago have not been apprehended. Maybe it’s been too long. Maybe the brothers are already dead. Maybe, if he asked, Alexander and his people could find them

Code Name: Iron Spear 1941

An excerpt from Wall of War.

“The bones were projecting from the base of a large boulder as if still reaching for freedom. The curled finger bones were still intact, tarsal and meta-tarsal pointed to the roof. Suetonius stared at the dreadful sight for many moments never having considered that perhaps he'd not been the first to climb this face. His curiosity brought him deeper. Behind the boulder, the skeleton continued, two sets of tibia and fibula with feet attached completed the scene. The man or woman had been crushed by a falling rock. Who it was would never be answered. What he may have possibly been doing here would soon become evident.”

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Saturday, 27 December 2025

Another fantastic year has come and gone! Read the highlights.

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