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Nancy Taber loves stories about strong complex women. She writes in the genres of non-fiction, historical fiction, mystery, and speculative fiction. Nancy is a former military officer who served as a Sea King helicopter Tactical Coordinator. Part of her job once included leaping out of a helicopter into the ocean. Now, most of her job includes sitting at a computer, drinking massive amounts of coffee, and dropping her characters into wild and sometimes weird circumstances. Nancy is a professor at Brock University, a fiction writing instructor, a facilitator with Writers Collective of Canada, was named a Top Woman in Defence 2022 by Esprit de Corps magazine, and was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. ...more

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Nancy Taber The idea for A Sea of Spectres began when my mother sent me an article about my ancestors' experiences in the 1758 Acadian expulsion. The focus of the…moreThe idea for A Sea of Spectres began when my mother sent me an article about my ancestors' experiences in the 1758 Acadian expulsion. The focus of the article was on a man, with only brief mention of his wife, Madeleine. And I thought, I can't have that - she deserves to be the heroine of her own story. So I intertwined her narrative with Acadian folklore and two POV descendants, inspired by an 1864 almanac and my research about women's service in contemporary (para)military contexts, respectively. (less)
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