Hearing our story can be galvanizing; which is why Canadians are turning to novels that revolve around home-grown events. And why not? There's enough history, politics and social drama in this country to match any nation.

In my writing I strive to capture the essence of the life and times in which my stories are set.

Listen first, then sign along to the hymns

WINNER 2007 Northern "Lit" AWARD Run of the Town General Store Publishing, 2006 As heard on CBC Radio Listen to a reading from Run of the Town

"Spellbinding Fiction" Ripe for the Picking 2004, available from General Store Publishing     1st edition sold out in 3 days 2nd edition now available Edited by Terrence Rundle West

Not In My Father’s Footsteps (third book ,second novel) is scheduled to come out in 2010. Footsteps examines the social, religious, economic, cultural and linguistic forces that drive two young, Montrealers—one Jewish from the Main, the other French Canadian of upper-crust Outremont stock—out of Montreal and onto opposite sides of the Spanish Civil War. Progress on this work was interrupted in order to edit, Clayton’s Kids: Pioneer Families of Hearst Public School.