J.E. Barnard
LightNews LightNews
banner
jebarnard.bsky.social
J.E. Barnard
@jebarnard.bsky.social
1.5K followers 2.2K following 190 posts
#NoCoalAB #ProtectOurParks
Incisive Editing Services; MECFS amateur sleuth in The Falls Mysteries from Dundurn; owned by a large ginger tomcat
Linktree http://linktr.ee/je_barnard
Uninvited DMs get you unFollowed
Posts Replies Media Videos
jebarnard.bsky.social
From the squalor of the first Kingston pen to the 21st century, this entertaining tome covers a whole section of Canadian history not generally taught in schools.
#DundurnPress #OnTheLam #NewRelease

jaynebarnard.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-l...
October 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Hard to believe so much water has passed under the bridge since I started writing my debut psychological suspense novel, When The Flood Falls, based on a lowering sky and a rising Elbow River.
laceymccrae.com/2019/06/toda...
#CrimeFiction #CanadianAuthor
Book cover of a green hilly landscape with light shining on a lake. A person watches the light on the water. Title in yellow is Where The Flood Falls. Author in white at bottom is J.E. Barnard Text reads: On this day in #FloodFalls "At some point along the restless path to full sleep, Lacey roused to find Dee bending over the bed, shaking her shoulder and whispering urgently, "Wake up, please! Please wake up! There's someone on the deck and the dogs aren't barking. Please!"
June 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Going into Week #3 of the federal election campaign, #CalgaryCentre is neck and neck between dusty do-nothing CPC incumbent, Greg McLean, and feisty Liberal newcomer, community organizer @lindsayluhnauyyc.bsky.social

We can FLIP this seat. Get out and VOTE!
Check your riding at smartvoting.ca
Graphic for Calgary Centre riding projection showing Conservative MP Greg McLean and Liberal newcomer Lindsay Luhnau tied at 46% with NDP at 6^ and Green Party at 2%.
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
When stalking escalates to murder, a traumatized ex-Mountie must expose an old secret to save her best friend.

books2read.com/FloodFalls

#CrimeFiction #friendship
Book cover on a pale yellow background. Image is a sunkissed lake with greenish misty hills receding and, in the foreground, a grassy meadow with a lone woman in a sweater looking into the distance. The title in yellow reads "When the Flood Falls". The author's name, in white across the bottom, is J.E. Barnard. The caption beside the book cover reads "a fresh and compelling story artfully told by a writer at the top of her game. Barnard's protagonist, ex-RCMP officer Lacey McCrae, is smart, decent, and wounded." This quote is from Canadian Grand Master of Crime Gail Bowen.
January 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
jebarnard.bsky.social

A very pertinent essay here.

"Has there been any notable male smear campaigns? Like i can't even think of any where a man was getting whacked unrightfully," one X user posted in a tweet that amassed over 1.5 million views.
www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...
"there are no equivalent campaigns against men because men do not suffer misogyny. Misogyny is a gendered weapon; while men in the spotlight may face criticism, it does not devolve into the kind of vitriolic, deeply personal, and sustained attacks designed to humiliate, discredit, and silence women. By Taylor Lorenz in the essay "Why won't the media use the word misogyny?"
December 25, 2024 at 7:17 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Have you been looking to try an online co-writing experience (signing in to write alongside other writers, to help give you a routine and quiet companionship)? Check out this from the Federation of BC Writers
www.bcwriters.ca/event-5979475
Square blue box with black text and a circular photo lower right with an arm and hand resting on a laptop keyboard filled with people smiling and talking. Text reads: INFORMATION SESSION. Federation of BC Writers Winter 2025 Writing Circle Preview. Learn all about the online writing groups open for registration. Wednesday Jan 8, 5:30 pm (Pacific time, Canada)
December 22, 2024 at 6:35 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Helped by a psychic’s tips & haunted by traumatic memories of Christmas Past, an ex-Mountie investigates murder at an exclusive ski resort.

books2read.com/IceFalls
A mottled green backdrop behind a white round plate with two cookies on it, beside a book cover in blues and whites, with a cross-country skier in the lower right, crossing a snowy expanse toward distant dark fir trees and mountains. The title in ice blue reads "Where The Ice Falls". Below in white is the author: J.E. Barnard
December 21, 2024 at 6:20 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
www.ask-polly.com/p/i-publishe...
White text on blurred green-dominant background reads: Writing is a quest for love. It's compulsive. it's a form of self-soothing and also a form of self-punishment. It's an escape and also an attempt to face reality. It's a way of broadcasting "I'm still here!" and also a way of hiding from everyone, among words that will give you love when no one else will. From Heather Havrilesky in "I Published a Novel and No One Cares!" posted on "Ask Polly" on Substack.
December 21, 2024 at 5:50 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Psst! For some REALLY hot 'n frosty holiday fun, written by women for women, check out this e-collection of holiday short erotica
Book cover: standing sharply in focus against a blurred red and green holiday tree background is a muscular man whose arms and shoulders strain the seams of his half-unbuttoned shirt. His thumbs are hooked in the pockets of his faded jeans. Book title is FESTIVE FROLICS. Subtitle is 'An Anthology of Short Fiction About Women Getting ALL the Way OFF!'
December 17, 2024 at 11:10 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
I'm so happy for you! Have some flowers
purple irises, yellow tulips, and clusters of tiny pink buds on green stalks, all crammed into a clear glass vase. Behind them are a white wall on the left and a bookshelf with books on the right.
December 12, 2024 at 3:30 PM
jebarnard.bsky.social
When a reluctant psychic finds a frozen oil company intern, a troubled ex-Mountie ices her own holiday to save other people’s Christmas.

"coolly calculated murder with friends who pull together in the face of tragedy, illness, or...a steaming hot cup of tea."
books2read.com/IceFalls
Square dark blue background with white text reads: QUOTE OF THE DAY. Below, in smaller font, is: Zoe checked her watch. How many minutes now? How big was Lacey's air pocket? Ski rescue should be called, but she couldn't waste a digger to go hunting for a cellphone signal. The first priority was to get air to wherever Lacey's face was. All her kids had CPR training. With five people, they could keep Lacey breathing for as long as it took help to arrive. They had to get her out alive, though. Everything else could wait. (quoted from the novel "Where the Ice Falls" by J.E. Barnard)
December 9, 2024 at 12:59 PM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Helped by a psychic’s tips & haunted by traumatic memories of Christmas Past, an ex-Mountie investigates murder at an exclusive ski resort.
books2read.com/IceFalls

#WomensFiction

#murder

#holidays
Salmon pink background, white text: at the top a centered box reads QUOTE OF THE DAY. Below in smaller white text reads, "A yell ripped through the peaceful wilderness. Zoe spun toward the sound. Kai lay sprawled in the bushes. Snow slid beneath him, exposing a frozen stream. The whole mass was tumbling over the ledge to the creek bed below. Branches broke as he grabbed at them. As his head neared the edge, Calvin flung himself down on the track and grabbed Kai's ankle. Momentum pulled them another few feet before Calvin was able to dig the toes of his boots into the hard-packed track and stop them. Kai's head and shoulders dangled in mid-air." from the novel WHERE THE ICE FALLS by J E Barnard.
November 30, 2024 at 9:10 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Pale ginger cat sitting in the corner made by 2 tan walls, at the very back of a white shelf cluttered with paintings, candlesticks, family photos, nd a teapot in the shape of a pink desk with a black typewriter on top.
November 17, 2024 at 6:35 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Post a picture you took (no description/location) to bring some zen to the timeline
Graduated darker to lighter blue sky down to a horizon that graduates darker to lighter grays left to right. Below this line is gray-blue water that graduates to deeper, richer blue towards the bottom of the frame. The lower 1/3 shows gentle waves ripping in to an invisible shoreline and small white curls and foam in the center/bottom.
November 17, 2024 at 6:15 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Hugs, dear friend.
Pink-mauve tulips in a vase. It sits on a round table covered in a screen print of river rocks and driftwood, in the corner of two green walls, each with a white-framed window beyond which a sunny green yard can be seen.
November 17, 2024 at 3:49 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Helped by a psychic’s tips & haunted by traumatic memories of Christmas Past, an ex-Mountie investigates murder at an exclusive ski resort.
books2read.com/IceFalls

#WomensFiction
#murder
#holidays
Pale yellow square background contains the following in san-serif black font: QUOTE OF THE DAY. Zoe watched her go. Lizi hadn't mentioned the nightmare and maybe that was all it was. A result of shock. But for Zoe, the feeling persisted that someone else was in the house with them. All night she'd felt like something was just beyond a doorway, or behind her, or leaving a room two steps ahead of her entering it. There hadn't been any sounds she couldn't explain, no strange fluttering of a curtain. Still, every time she passed a mirror or saw her reflection in the window, she'd expected to see the young man standing behind her. From "Where the Ice Falls" by J. E. Barnard
November 17, 2024 at 3:35 AM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Helped by a psychic’s tips & haunted by traumatic memories of Christmas Past, an ex-Mountie investigates murder at an exclusive ski resort.

books2read.com/IceFalls

#WomensFiction #murder #holidays
3-toned blue background with white text headed "Quote of the Day" followed by "Zoe leaned toward the window and saw Lizi flailing back through the snow, her mouth wide, her pink-gloved hands waving above her head. By the time she opened the back door, Lizi was halfway up the steps, gasping and screaming alternately like a broken steam whistle. She lunged inside, grabbed the door, and hurled it shut. The icicles plunged from the eaves and shattered, one after another, onto the porch." quote from WHERE THE ICE FALLS, a crime novel by J.E. Barnard.
November 14, 2024 at 1:56 PM
jebarnard.bsky.social
Thanks to @datblaxican.bsky.social for this sapient advise post-election
Black text on pale gray background reads: This chapter is called "They are NOT your assignment. You have done enough. Let them go."
November 13, 2024 at 1:31 AM