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New Substack post! Rescue plants, a cherry tree comeback, Bouchercon 2026 news & celebrating friends. winonakent.substack.com/p/rescue-plant…

@bluesky107 Hi Kathy! Good to see you here too! Sorry I didn't catch you earlier. Glad you're doing well now. I'm good! And my writing is good too :) Too much to list here... have a look at my Substack - I've started doing one weekly now :) xx

@winonakent hi, nona gosh, it's good to see you here again. I'm back on twitter and facebook. I've ben sick all last year. How are you doing? And how is your career going? xx

@GLOWHOLLYWOOD @harrisbobh Yay, congratulations!!

My book cover won first place! The 2025 CCDA Winners for Non-Fiction Cover Design chantireviews.com/2026/04/29/the… @harrisbobh @winonakent #chanticleer

In 1973, a train guard warned me about a dangerous man while I was alone in a compartment,late at night in London. That real moment became "Between Stations," my new short story in the anthology Murder on the Menu. Cover reveal + full story on my Substack winonakent.substack.com/p/a-1973-train…

Do we have your attention!? Yes, stuff, writing stuff has been happening behind the scenes. Tuesday, we will reveal. @crimewriterscan

New Substack! Jason Six is underway (Fraser River mud research is a thing I do now), 2 new short stories found a home and Four Short Sets with Jason Davey's out August 2026. Plus: my husband's broken shoulder may have just improved the plot of Jason Six. winonakent.substack.com/p/mud-guitars-…

Guess what's in the works for this summer.... You can read all about it at winonakent.com/fourshortsets.…

Also doing a course on Pinterest for Authors, editing 2 brand new short stories for inclusion in 2 new anthologies, researching & writing my 6th Jason Davey Mystery, and generally getting over the virus from hell (2+ weeks but almost well).

What have I been doing for the past month or so? Editing and getting ready to publish "Four Short Sets with Jason Davey" - an anthology of 4 prev pub'd Jason Davey stories including Disturbing the Peace - cover art and preview coming soon!

My favourite New Westminster sushi restaurant, Ki Sushi, burned down on Tuesday night :( Here's an excellent story by Theresa McManus in today's Freshet News about the fire. Quotes from me and @jimgoddard3 freshetnews.ca/new-westminste…

And I'm continuing to work on the latest Jason Davey full-length mystery, hopefully being released in October.

And I'm going to release four of my shorter Jason Davey pieces (Salty Dog Blues, Blue Devil Blues, Disturbing the Peace and On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog) in one collection, also due out this summer/fall.

A second short story, "Between Stations", will be in a new anthology coming out this summer.

An update on my writing...my short story "Cross-Check" will be in the next Sisters in Crime-Canada West's anthology "Home Sweet Homicide", due out in October.

I've updated my headshot for PR purposes. I look better with glasses than without. So, even though I don't need them anymore except for reading... they're staying :)

@gnilwoce So glad you liked it :) (Nice cat) :D

@winonakent Thank you for the Ecard.....It's beautiful 😀😀😀

Wishing you a lovely Christmas (however you celebrate at this time of year), and all good wishes for a happy, healthy, calm and successful 2026. winonakent.substack.com/p/merry-festiv…

Fabulous flashmob singing "All I Want for Christmas" in Burnaby Metrotown a few days ago. I know exactly where this is (I trek down that way every time I go to see my eye doctor). This'll put everyone in the Christmas spirit :) youtube.com/watch?v=L-ixu4…

Here are my SIL's journals, retrieved from her flat...which will feature prominently in the next novel. When a battered, stolen guitar resurfaces in New West, musician and amateur sleuth Jason Davey follows its scars into a mystery that hits all the wrong notes. Coming Oct 2026

Celebrating Mr. Winona's 69th birthday at Kelly O'Bryan's Restaurant in New West. Many merry ho ho's and culinary festivities :-) @jimgoddard3