Ask the Author: Brenda Wilbee
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Brenda Wilbee
1) Lady Rebel--a biographical novel set in Winnipeg, NWT, 1870.
"A peaceful and diverse community is rocked off balance by an outside takeover. Canada has just purchased their land, the US wants it, and into the gap flood white supremacists. Mary Drever and other people of privilege stand with their mixed-race neighbors. But when their Cree and French Catholic leader draws a line in the sand, he sets into motion a dark and revengeful path...on both sides. When he launches a reign of terror and then does the unthinkable, Mary is caught in the terrifying cross-hairs of both sides. How can she navigate a dangerous game, defined by men, without compromise? And still manage to stay alive?
A cross between Gone With The Wind and Right Gone Wrong, Lady Rebel is the story of a just cause gone wrong, a flawed hero, a plucky heroine, and fantastical love that reveals itself on the final page.
2) Temper the Wind, a memoir
My family immigrates to the US when I am nine years old, to live at a Christian camping center. Betrayal greets us when we arrive and I begin to sense a great deal of evil without language to help me cope--or to give me power over the events that result in our flight back to Canada eight months later. A return to the ranch 16 years later reveals that God, just as the French proverb teaches, does indeed temper the wind for the shorn lamb.
"A peaceful and diverse community is rocked off balance by an outside takeover. Canada has just purchased their land, the US wants it, and into the gap flood white supremacists. Mary Drever and other people of privilege stand with their mixed-race neighbors. But when their Cree and French Catholic leader draws a line in the sand, he sets into motion a dark and revengeful path...on both sides. When he launches a reign of terror and then does the unthinkable, Mary is caught in the terrifying cross-hairs of both sides. How can she navigate a dangerous game, defined by men, without compromise? And still manage to stay alive?
A cross between Gone With The Wind and Right Gone Wrong, Lady Rebel is the story of a just cause gone wrong, a flawed hero, a plucky heroine, and fantastical love that reveals itself on the final page.
2) Temper the Wind, a memoir
My family immigrates to the US when I am nine years old, to live at a Christian camping center. Betrayal greets us when we arrive and I begin to sense a great deal of evil without language to help me cope--or to give me power over the events that result in our flight back to Canada eight months later. A return to the ranch 16 years later reveals that God, just as the French proverb teaches, does indeed temper the wind for the shorn lamb.
Brenda Wilbee
Forget the writing books. Just write. I mean it.
Brenda Wilbee
Freedom to think for yourself and explore your thoughts and ideas. The excuse it gives you to knock on a stranger's door. A tax write-off for field trips and research. The satisfaction of waking up in another world--one you're in charge of.
Brenda Wilbee
I don't deal with it well...
Brenda Wilbee
I have always written. First through my art, but when I learned to print I switched to words--though I still draw and illustrate.
If I'm not in the act of writing, I am still writing in my head. I can't escape--unless I go downhill skiing. Oh what a relief! No thoughts. Nothing but being alive.
If I'm not in the act of writing, I am still writing in my head. I can't escape--unless I go downhill skiing. Oh what a relief! No thoughts. Nothing but being alive.
Brenda Wilbee
I got the idea of writing Lady Rebel many years ago while researching my great-grandfather of the original Canadian Mounties. In that research, I stumbled across Mary Drever, a young girl of 17 who was instrumental in the outcome of the Louis Riel Resistance of 1870.
I was intrigued how a young woman of her age found faith and strength to navigate her way in a man's world without losing herself--and still effect it's outcome.
I was intrigued how a young woman of her age found faith and strength to navigate her way in a man's world without losing herself--and still effect it's outcome.
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