With Laurence Westwood. One of the problems, some might say advantages, of being an author is that you spend a lot of time on your own. Not only the actual writing time, but plotting and wondering how best to promote your finished work. What better then than to get together with other authors to share… Continue reading Not Going it Alone – Meeting Other Authors.
Last week saw the fourth anniversary of the publication of my first book - "New Beginnings in Vancouver Island" and today sees the third and final book in this Colville series with "Farewell to Vancouver Island". It tells Sam Gray's story in the Fraser River goldfields. When I stop to think about it, that's six… Continue reading Two sagas and six Books!l
My debut novel. For over six months the emigrants were cooped up on the Princess Rose, a three masted barque that had carried them from Liverpool to Canada. In Victoria they were transferred to The Beaver a steam powered side wheeler. They approach Colville, their new home. "To be charitable, the settlement looked promising, if… Continue reading Colville’s Bastion
James Douglas Fur trader, colonial governor, nicknamed 'Old Square Toes'. Knighted in 1863. The only real person in my historical fiction novel 'New Beginnings on Vancouver Island'. Work in progress.
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