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When I was 45, I heard author, Sylvia Olsen, speak. Amongst other things, she talked about starting writing at the age of 50. I had always wanted to be a writer but work, school, and single parenting got in the way. I thought I was too old to start writing. She inspired me! I began to play around with poetry and had a couple of poems published in the Island Writer Magazine and in Out of the Warmland, a collected works of writers from the Cowichan Valley, sadly now out of print. I also started my first attempt at a novel. It was horrifically bad and I put it away, never to see the light of day again.

The summer I was 48, I decided that I would register for the Three Day Novel Contest. Over the Labour Day long weekend, I wrote, and I wrote, an When I was 45, I heard author, Sylvia Olsen, speak. Amongst other things, she talked about starting writing at the age of 50. I had always wanted to be a writer but work, school, and single parenting got in the way. I thought I was too old to start writing. She inspired me! I began to play around with poetry and had a couple of poems published in the Island Writer Magazine and in Out of the Warmland, a collected works of writers from the Cowichan Valley, sadly now out of print. I also started my first attempt at a novel. It was horrifically bad and I put it away, never to see the light of day again.

The summer I was 48, I decided that I would register for the Three Day Novel Contest. Over the Labour Day long weekend, I wrote, and I wrote, and I wrote. My head was pounding. There was much swearing, more tears and angry growls of frustration, but in the end, I had my first finished novel – Greenwich List. It didn’t win anything but I thought it wasn’t bad as a first attempt at a finished work. I started to send it off to publishers. I was so naive! I sent it to several publishers at the same time, not knowing that publishers, in general, HATE simultaneous submissions. I also sent it off assuming someone would pick it up on the first go-round. Amazingly, someone did! Asteroid Publishing liked my novel well enough and, as luck would have it, it was released as an ebook on my 50th birthday.

For Christmas of 2014, I independently published Mancia Di Sanu: An Expat’s Take on Sicilian Cooking and October 1, 2016, Island2island Press released the new edition, Mancia di Sanu: A Canadian Expat’s Take on Sicilian Life and Cuisine. Since then, I released my second novel, The Bastard of Saint Genevra and my first children's book, MooMoo Saves the Day. I also published my first book of poetry: Gratitude & Betrayal | Betrayal & Gratitude: Poems. I am editing my third novel and I have several books floating around in my head. No writer’s block for me! I’ve also had a number of articles published both online and in print. ...more

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Mancia di Sanu Release Announced

My upcoming Travelogue / Cookbook, Mancia di Sanu will be released in the fall of 2016. Check out the book trailer!

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