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Sunshine Coast: A Place to Be
Discover what makes the Sunshine Coast a special place to live, holiday, fulfill one's dreams or, simply put, to be! This book introduces readers to the resourceful people who settled in the once-isolated seaside villages and infused them with community spirit through their dedication to the environment, history, arts, sports and recreation.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
About the author
Rosella M. Leslie
8 booksAlthough I was born in Edmonton my childhood was spent in small towns of central Alberta, north central British Columbia, the Fraser Valley and the Sunshine Coast.In 1967 I graduated from Elphinstone Senior Secondary School in Gibsons, BC. Post secondary education included training as a Medical Records Technician.
Having decided to make writing the focus of my life, in the fall of 1980 I moved into a rent-free floathouse at Clowhom Falls, a small settlement 25 miles by boat from Sechelt,BC. There I began plunking out stories on an ancient Remington manual typewriter. Since then I have attended writing festivals, workshops with Ian Slater and Daniel Wood, and on-going tutorials with Betty C. Keller and the Quintessential Writing Group.
In 1986 I won the BC Writer's Federation, Best of BC Writing Competiton. My feature articles and fictional stories have been published in Western People Magazine Fiction, The Leader, Alive Magazine and Coast News Weekender.> I am a co-author with Betty Keller of , and (Horsdal & Schubart, 1996), for which we won third prize in the 1997 BC Historical Writing Competition. In 2005 I was also a co-author of (Harbour Publishing),which won the Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize. A year later I published my first novel, (NeWest Press).
Today I live on the Sunshine Coast where I write, hike, garden, and fish the local inlets with my husband, John, and sometimes with my son, Nathan.
Having decided to make writing the focus of my life, in the fall of 1980 I moved into a rent-free floathouse at Clowhom Falls, a small settlement 25 miles by boat from Sechelt,BC. There I began plunking out stories on an ancient Remington manual typewriter. Since then I have attended writing festivals, workshops with Ian Slater and Daniel Wood, and on-going tutorials with Betty C. Keller and the Quintessential Writing Group.
In 1986 I won the BC Writer's Federation, Best of BC Writing Competiton. My feature articles and fictional stories have been published in Western People Magazine Fiction, The Leader, Alive Magazine and Coast News Weekender.> I am a co-author with Betty Keller of , and (Horsdal & Schubart, 1996), for which we won third prize in the 1997 BC Historical Writing Competition. In 2005 I was also a co-author of (Harbour Publishing),which won the Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize. A year later I published my first novel, (NeWest Press).
Today I live on the Sunshine Coast where I write, hike, garden, and fish the local inlets with my husband, John, and sometimes with my son, Nathan.
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