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Laila Doncaster

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Laila Doncaster was born in Canada and raised in the Province of British Columbia. Acquiring the Saint John’s Ambulance – Industrial First Responder, she worked primarily in road construction, as well as the oilfields, gas pipelines, forestry, and forest fires of BC and AB, as a traffic controller and first aid attendant from 1981 until 2011. She graduated with honors from a technical university in 2004, with a minor degree in Computer Programming, Software Development, and Systems Analysis.

Suffering from anxiety and depression most of her adult life, she found respite in writing her first novel, “Cocooning, The Butterfly“, which began in 2002. She married her husband, Jeff, in 2014, and lives in Alberta. She is a mother of two, a young gr
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Global eBook Awards 2020 ~ Nominee

I am pleased to announce that “Cocooning, The Butterfly” has been entered and a competitive Nominee in the Global eBook Awards Competition for 2020. Just to be accepted, is an honor.  This prestigious Award, is giving to only the best of the best entries and the competition is vast, fast, and furious.  I have no […]
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Laila Doncaster Laila Doncaster said: " Beta Reader's PRAISE for COCOONING, THE BUTTERFLY
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“An adrenalin pumping and evocative experience. This is the stuff of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, where carefully crafted and beautifully constructed fiction is irrev
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“To love unconditionally, is to live as free as a Monarch Butterfly in Spring.”
Laila Doncaster, Cocooning the Butterfly

“To love unconditionally, is to live as free as a Monarch Butterfly in Spring.”
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
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“So many books, so little time.”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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Also, the writing carries all the experience you mentioned and we act accordingly


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Laila Doncaster My sincere apologies Rose - I did not see this until just now - thank you for accepting my FR - my husband's family has ancient roots in Doncaster UK - glad to meet you & happy writing :)


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