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Dear Terry:

Thank you for being such an enthusiastic and well-spoken guest at CKCU. We had an excellent response to the show. Your readings were commented on by listeners, as were your comments on this period of Canadian history.

'Ripe for the Picking' is such a successful combination of ideas and characters. Congratulations!!

Dear Terry:

During a cottage vacation I finally had a chance to read, 'Ripe for the Picking'. Thank you for writing it. Debating National Unity may (have been? be again soon?) the great national preoccupation but the whole notion of a novel on the subject is entirely novel. If it gains readership, it could serve a very important purpose (as a novel, the subject is much more accessible than it is in other media).

Frankly, I found every one of your major premises to be entirely plausible. Not a single one of them rang untrue (or even forced) to me.

While I'm not in any way a literary critic, I must say I found your characters all to be plausible. I'd say you developed each of them sufficiently and in no instance did you overdo it. Well done.

Hi Terry:

Roselle and I have both finished the book and congratulate you on your accomplishment. We are looking forward to the next one.

Terry:

Once I started the book, and despite the numerous and constant distractions of retirement, I easily read it within the week. A very enjoyable book and one I have already loaned to my son. The scenario is neatly defined, the emotions and rationalizations well-described and the potential frightening. Well done! Based on its readability, it should sell like hotcakes.

Hello Terry:

Enjoyed your book! Lots of action and you have the mutual feelings of the two solitudes down pat. You go through the stuff at a good pace. I think the scenario of a yes vote and its aftermath is well imagined and depicted.

If I have one gripe, it's that it seems unlikely that the frontier town of Hearst would have produced a senior separatist and a minister of defence (sexy to boot). But then, the town did produce a late-blooming writer of a political suspense novel that ranks up there with Follet, Clancy and the like; a writer who does not use the jaded terrorist or rotten-to-the-core American admin plot, but turns Canada's tiresome central issue into a good read.

Dear Terry:

I finished the novel before the girls got here for the book club. It is a page turner and I really enjoyed it. Very realistic. It was a nice change from what we've been reading. Amazing amount of research must have gone into it. The locations were such fun to read about as well. I was surprised with the ending but was quite happy with the outcome. Your use of language was superb. Loved the similes. We are going to do it for our September book club. I'll give you the date when we have made it and hopefully you can drop in that night for a visit.

Hello Terry:

I'm really savouring Ripe for the Picking. You've set the bar high. I'm looking forward to your second book.

Dear Terry:

I finished your book and really enjoyed it. I will pass it on to my colleagues. I'm sure they'll enjoy it too. Are you writing another book?