If someone had told me many years ago that I’d spend my entire life living in the same small community I probably would have thought they were joking. But here it is many years later and my feet are still firmly planted. I’ve always been a bit of a history nut but it seems the older I get the more interested I become in local history. That was part of the reason why I chose to set my first young adult novel, “Bitter, Sweet” in East Dalhousie, the community where I’ve lived my entire life. I’ve been writing for many years and have published short stories in literary magazine across Canada. I was a contributor to two Christmas anthologies published by Nimbus Publishing in Halifax, A Maritime Christmas and Christmas in the Maritimes and, a third anthology published in 2010, Country Roads: Memoirs From Rural Canada.
So, you know when someone makes the comment that it was an honour to be nominated how corny it sounds? Well a few years back one of my short stories, “Alexander the Great,” was nominated for the Journey Prize and it truly was an honour to have been nominated. Agaiin 2010, I was blessed when Bitter, Sweet was shortlisted for the Geoffery Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People! Being an author has given the me opportunity to meet some very interesting and talented people along the way. What an amazing journey!
So what comes after “Bitter, Sweet”? I’m not altogether sure about that myself. All I know is that I will continue to write. That’s the only thing I can be sure of at this time.
