Status Updates From North Country

Fun fact: I've spent my winters watching my daughter play hockey for the past eight years, so writing scenes set in a rink came very naturally to me.

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I refocus on the window across the way.

“We were friends for a lot longer than we were anything else. And it was nothing. A high school thing. We wouldn’t have lasted.”

Can she hear the lie in my voice? Because I don’t believe it for a second.

The main heroine, Emery McAllister, is the detachment commander for an Ontario Provincial Police (O.P.P.) station. Although North Country features a police officer, the story is entirely character-driven and 100% NOT a police procedural. To help craft Emery’s role authentically, I hired a consultant and picked her brain with a lot of “what ifs.”

Fun Fact: I drove 2000km (for my American friends, that's about 1243 miles) in Northern Ontario to find the perfect setting to help shape my fictional town of Cold Water!