Excerpt from End Times This is the work I’m most proud of. The spark for End Times came from a dream: I was following a beautiful young woman through a forest. I didn’t know who she was or where we were going, but I knew I had to follow her. The scene was ethereal; I recall shades of green and gold, and that her feet didn’t touch the ground when she walked. I thought she was a ghost, but the dream never showed me that much. I woke up with her image clear in my mind, and she didn’t fade the way dreams usually do. She stayed with me throughout the day, tempting my imagination, and before long I had a sense of who she was. I sat down that night and wrote her name for the first time: Mia Floats Softly. End Times flowed from this name, and from her image, with frightening ease. Usually, when I write, I do so with a kind of goofy satisfaction, like a kid eating his favourite meal. End Times was different. I wrote it with reverence and understanding, taking the twists and turns the story offered – trusting it, showing respect. It didn’t take me long to realize that I was writing something special…a novel I would always be proud of. I don’t want to appear disparaging about my other stories; they’re fun and enjoyable and they have their place, but End Times stands in a different place. Whether or not it’s a better place is a matter of opinion, but it’s certainly different. End Times is available wherever books are sold.