From the Rockies to the Coquihalla, through the Kootenays and the Okanagan, explore the backcountry getaways and treasures that are found off the beaten path. 231 B/W photographs, 23 maps.
I was born in New Westminster, B.C. and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. I married soon after graduation and moved to a farm where I had two children. When that marriage failed I began a long career of holding many as various jobs. I have worked as a bartender, hotel maid, cashier, bank teller, bookkeeper, printing press operator, meat wrapper, gold prospector, warehouse shipper, house renovator and nursing attendant. During that time I raised my two children and helped raise three step-children. I also had travel and historical articles published in magazines. Between 1990 and 2000 I researched and wrote seven Backroads Series books about Alberta, B.C., the Yukon and Alaska that were published by Lone Pine Publishing in Edmonton, AB.
I love change so I have moved over thirty times in my life living on acreages and farm and in small towns and cities throughout Alberta and B.C. I now live on an acreage in the Port Alberni Valley on Vancouver Island with my husband, five cats and four chickens. I currently work in a group home doing one-on-one support with a mentally and physically challenged man.
I belong to the Crime Writers of Canada, the International Association of Crime Writers/North American Branch, the Vancouver International Writers Festival, the Writers Guild of Alberta, the Federation of B.C. Writers, and the Port Alberni Arts Council.
My short story A Capital Offence received Ascent Aspirations First Prize for Flash Fiction.
Published Fiction Works
Whistler's Murder
ebook novel
BWLPP, 2011
Calgary AB
The Only Shadow in the House
Novel
Sumach Press, Oct 2010
Toronto, ON.
A Capital Offence
Short story
Ascent Aspirations Magazine Anthology Eight Winter 2010
Ascent Aspirations Publishing
Nanoose Bay, B.C.
Illegally Dead
Novel
Sumach Press, 2008
Toronto, ON.
