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My Story<\/h1>\n

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I used to be an editor. Working for publishers in Toronto and later in London, I edited nonfiction, before adding a year at McKinsey & Co and then returning to Vancouver to start my own firm.<\/p>\n

Writing fiction happened by accident, while I was looking at the film industry as a possible source of editing contracts. I tried my hand at writing a script and fell in love with dialogue. Half-hour scripts, full-length screenplays, comedy, drama, I tried everything.<\/p>\n

After only a few nibbles from the film business, I decided to have a crack at a novel. My first, Owen\u2019s Day<\/em>, attracted interest from a midwestern newspaper as a winter serialization. But they wanted more cuts than I was prepared to make so I declined.<\/p>\n

A long-standing love of golf and the Masters led to my second book, Ang Tak<\/em>. The story of a young man of Sherpa and British descent, the title means \u201cLittle Tiger.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Money Tree<\/em> came next, developed from a script I\u2019d written years before. It drew on my editing experience for clients in the financial sector.<\/p>\n

Return to Kaitlin<\/em> was based on my nephew\u2019s nightmarish experience in a town in northern Alberta. And my collection of stories for children, A Knock at the Door<\/em>, was assembled and produced after years of searching for the right illustrator.<\/p>\n

A Mexican vacation was the basis for my 2020 action-adventure thriller, Cruising to Danger.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0A sequel, Finding Marius<\/em>, was published in November 2021.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Born in England and raised in Canada, I love movies and am currently immersed in old British movies on YouTube. I enjoy helping kids with their reading in our library\u2019s Reading Buddies program, and I golf every chance I get.<\/p>\n

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Novels<\/h2>\n

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Return to Kaitlin<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A hard-drinking young man looks for work in the north, finds trouble.<\/p>\n

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The Money Tree<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A money-growing family face the Secret Service and their neighbors.<\/p>\n

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Ang Tak<\/strong><\/h4>\n

An amateur golfer and his caddie at the Masters.<\/p>\n

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Owen’s Day<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A lonely man saves a child then disappears.<\/p>\n

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Cruising to Danger<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A girl and her grandmother tangle with a Mexican drug ring.<\/p>\n

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