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Having been raised as an East Coast girl in Truro, Nova Scotia, Stephanie Matthews has spent time living in Newfoundland, Oklahoma, and Italy. She has currently settled in Ontario working for a non-profit organization and writing in her spare time.

Stephanie’s love of writing came at an early age, drafting her first “real story” in Grade 2. This love has continued throughout her life, as a university professor once accused her of having made a history research paper too exciting. While this accusation inspired an opinionated debate between department professors- from which she gently excused herself, the moment solidified a decision to never take the excitement out of her writing- fiction or non.

When not writing or working, Stephanie enjoys
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What’s Your X-Factor?

I was struggling with the world I thought I knew versus the world I was seeing.

An author I respect once gave this advice for how to write a great story: write about what you’re going through. That could be anything from an existential crisis, to a philosophical question, to dealing with strong emotions that are hard to come to terms with. This question, or issue, should serve as the backbone

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The story of Kuri (and her dog Keeng), and then also of Ryan and Brent, did not end how I expected it to. And that's a good thing. At first I wasn't sure what the two very different lives of these two story lines had in common, but it didn't take lon ...more
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This was my first book to read in this mystery-solving duo series of books and I rather quite enjoyed it! What made me choose this book was the setting being in Montreal and Niagara-on-the-Lake; Montreal is a city ripe for a good crime series, and Ni ...more
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For a first foray into the horror genre, Jennifer has shown with her horror debut that she is not uncomfortable in it, but she sure knows how to make her readers uncomfortable with her tale of creep!

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Another great anthology by the short story wizard Nannette Kreitzman. I say "wizard" because somehow every story she writes is so different, so unique, and so often with a twist I didn't see coming. Story for story I think this may be my favourite an ...more
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Another great anthology by the short story wizard Nannette Kreitzman. I say "wizard" because somehow every story she writes is so different, so unique, and so often with a twist I didn't see coming. Story for story I think this may be my favourite an ...more
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