Dianne Greenlay

Born and raised on the Canadian prairies, Dianne Greenlay saves lives by day (besides being a writer, she is a physiotherapist in a remote sole charge clinic as well as a retired EMT), and she tells lies by night (as any entertaining fiction writer would do). She is also a playwright and Creative Director of the long-running community theater group, Darkhorse Theatre.
However her biggest achievement is having successfully raised a family of 6 children in a home with only one bathroom (and everyone got out alive.)

Straying into the genre of humor/comedy, Dianne is the author of "The Camping Guy", which is available as both a one act comedy (live theater script) and a short story. As an author, she has also won multiple awards for her historical action novels, "Quintspinner - A Pirate's Quest" and "Deadly Misfortune".

"Quintspinner" and "Deadly Misfortune" are set in the 1700's, in the pirate-infested waters of the West Indies for which she did an enormous amount of research - hauled sail on a tall ship, snorkeled Caribbean shipwrecks, survived a near fatal swamping of a dinghy by a spouting Orca, got dumped off a surfboard and caught in an ocean riptide - well you get the picture - and she lived to write about it.

Dianne began writing her first novel to fulfill one of the items on her bucket list. It was either that, or learn to play the bagpipes. Her husband is grateful for her choice. She is fluent in at least her mother tongue and she thanks her fierce English teachers for that.
More of her thoughts on life can be found at www.diannegreenlay.com .