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Gary Goldstein writes for TV, film and the stage—and is now also a novelist. ​ He has written more than 15 produced telefilms including the comedies "The Wish List," "Hitched for the Holidays," "This Magic Moment" and "My Boyfriends' Dogs," and the first two movies in the "Flower Shop Mystery" series starring Brooke Shields. Gary's latest TV movie, "Lights! Camera! Christmas!" will premiere on Hal...

Tasnuva Hayden is a Canadian writer based in Calgary, Alberta, where she works as a consulting engineer and editor for filling Station, Canada's experimental literary magazine. Her work has appeared in Nōd Magazine, J'aipur Journal, Anti-Lang, carte blanche, Qwerty, and more.

Author of "My Mama is a Superhero!", a story inspired by a bedtime conversation between Lindsey and her daughter. They were discussing her day at school when her daughter, Ella, recounted a pre-school classmate had asked her about Lindsey's wheelchair. Ella explained that she expressed to her friend that Lindsey's disability in her eyes was not a limitation but a super power and how unique her mom...

Dharma writes gritty crime thrillers about queer women who kick ass. Known for the Jinx Ballou Bounty Hunter series and the Shea Stevens Outlaw Biker series, they are one of the only openly transgender authors in the crime fiction genre. Dharma's action-driven thrillers explore the complexities of social and criminal justice in a world where the legal system favors the privileged.

Russell Wangersky was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where his father was a professor of oceanography at Dalhousie University and his mother, a marine biologist, ran a tight ship. His youth was spent exploring Halifax, with travel to Barcelona and Trondheim, Norway, when his family travelled on university sabbaticals. After more than a decade of writing columns for Atlantic Canadian newsp...

Donna Gartshore lives in Saskatchewan, Canada .Donna has two books published with Love Inspired and a third one is coming soon. She has also published several short stories and poems with various literary publications and writes devotions. Donna loves family time, walks, coffee and movies with friends, serving in various capacities at the church she attends and talking about books and writing with...

Chelene Knight is the author of the Braided Skin and the memoir Dear Current Occupant , winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Her essays have appeared in multiple Canadian and American literary journals, plus the Globe and Mail , the Walrus , and the Toronto Star . Her work is anthologized in Making Room , Love Me Tru...

Madeline Sonik is an award-winning and eclectic writer, anthologist, and teacher, who lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Her books include a novel, Arms; short fiction, Drying the Bones; a children's novel, Belinda and the Dustbunnys; two poetry collections, Stone Sightings and The Book of Changes. Her volume of personal essays, Afflictions & Departures, was nominated for the BC National Award f...

Meet Debbie Burke, crime novelist. She writes Montana thrillers infused with psychological suspense. Her quirky characters, witty dialogue, and breakneck plot twists are hallmarks of the Tawny Lindholm Thrillers with Passion series. In The Job Interview, Tawny Lindholm, 50, hopes to embark on a new career as a novice investigator for brilliant but bombastic attorney Tillman Rosenbaum. Tawny is ine...

Laurie writes fast-paced thrillers set in the Pacific Northwest featuring a trifecta of malice and the pursuit and cost of justice. and the pursuit and cost of justice. She is a photographer and avid reader, carrying a laptop, book, and camera with her wherever she goes.

Brendan McLeod is a Canadian spoken word artist, musician and novelist. His work often deals with the exploration of social and political commentary, family histrionics, surreal love poems, obscure adventure stories, and powerful personal stories.

Emma Côté is from a small town in Northern Ontario, where the winters were long but the books were aplenty. As a result, she went on to study journalism, English literature and creative writing and most recently completed a postgraduate certificate in publishing. When Emma isn't re-reading or re-writing a novel, she can be found taking walks in the forest, and asking people if she can pet their do...

Suspense, thriller and mystery author. Traveler. Art collector. Foodie. Dog owner. Party giver. 

Michael Barclay is the author of the 2018-19 national bestseller The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip and co-author of 2001's Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-95, both on ECW Press. He's a broadcaster and award-winning magazine journalist with work in Maclean's, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times and more. He blogs at Radio Free Canuckis...

Rick Mofina is a Canadian author of crime fiction and thriller novels. He grew up in Belleville, Ontario, and began writing short stories in school, selling his first short story at the age of fifteen. As a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, the International Crime Writers Association, and the Crime Writers' Association and Crime Writers of Canada, Rick c...

Drawing inspiration from his family, friends and the world around him, Glenn creates the stories that will capture the imagination and inspire young readers.  He is thrilled to bring the 5-book series of "Dorie Daydream in the land of Idoj" to everyone, and hopes that readers will find it as exciting and motivating  to read it as it was to write it.

At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of a modern couple's apartment. With an unrelenting prose style and pitch-black humour, Giving Up addresses difficult topics—James's ruinous ambition, and Mary's quiet anguish—in a funny and relatable way.

Sami Jo Small is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender. As a member of the Canadian national team, she was a three-time Olympic medalist and four-time World Championship medalist. One of the founders of the now defunct Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), she served in the role of vice-chair during the league's inaugural season and went on to play ten seasons in the league. 

Alice Kuipers is a British-born author living in Saskatchewan, Canada who is best known for her young adult novels. Life on the Refrigerator Door won the Grand Prix de Viarmes, the Livrentête Prize, the Redbridge Teenage Book Award in 2008 and the Saskatchewan First Book Award in 2007.  Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international...

His books, first published in the early 1990's as contemporary fiction, achieved critical acclaim and his first novel One Oblique One was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Award for the best debut crime novel of the year in 1991. This was the first year that the award was opened up to global competition and Keith was pipped to the award by the fabulous Walter Moseley's Devi...

Something To Hold, a book filled with inspiration from Jane's lifelong experiences as a clear and direct channel for Spirit Guides.

Katie Hyslop writes about education and youth issues for The Tyee. They are interested in the social justice aspects of education, and how youth adapt and respond to our rapidly changing world. Their work has appeared in Megaphone, the Vancouver Sun and Yes! magazine, as well as CBC Radio shows On The Coast, Daybreak North and The Current.

Jeffery Straker grew up taking piano lessons in small-town Saskatchewan and has gone on to perform over 100 shows per year across Canada, Europe and Latin America.  The rootsy-storytelling of his songs has the power to transport a listener – out onto a lake in Canada's North or to the main street of a prairie town.  A clever lyricist with an energetic piano style, his song writing has drawn critic...

KATHRYN BARNETT lives in Hampshire, England. She is a qualified homeopath and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Homeopathy from Middlesex University. Her interest in natural medicine inspires her writing, having had an article published by THE GREEN PARENT MAGAZINE on homeopathy and pregnancy, which motivated her to write her debut novel: TRUST ME ON THIS ONE, EMILY.

Born in  Denzil, Saskatchewan, the eldest of six children her parents were farmers. Her first passion was reading, reading every Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and Bobbsey Twins book ever published. Sneaking off to the outhouse with a book was a favorite trick - sometimes it worked for an hour or so till she was discovered.  She had recipes scribbled on restaurant napkins, the inside of envelopes, all man...