1. What were you in your life before you
became a writer? Did this influence your writing?
I was a high-school English teacher and
associate professor. Perhaps from my habitation in the academic world, I
learned how to hold an audience’s attention. For sure I learned how to critique
writing and where to put a comma.
2. Are you genre specific or general?
I’ve written memoirs, essays, reviews, and
a textbook, as well as historical
fiction and modern fiction. So I guess that means I am NOT genre specific
.3. Did your reading have anything to do
with your choice of a genre or genres?
My favourite book when I was ten years old
was The Scarlet Pimpernel. But from
those long-ago days, I’ve gone on to read thousands of books in every genre
possible. So no, my reading merely made me aware of what good writing is all
about.
4. What is your latest release?
Books We Love has just published my
historical novel, Duelling in a New
World. It’s about John White, Upper Canada’s first Attorney-General. He was
a crazy man when it came to his love life, but he totally redeemed himself in
his legal career by drafting the first anti-slavery bill in the British Empire.
5. What are you working on now?
My novel-in-progress is about Anne Powell,
an early Toronto woman who rebels against the narrow roles assigned to women in
the early 1800s. The title, Propriety Be
Damned, probably sums it up.
6. Where can you find me?
In many places: at home in Toronto,
Ontario; and in The Great Empyrean on Facebook, Linkedin, Goodreads, The
Writers’ Union of Canada biographical listings, et cetera.
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