Sunday, August 27, 2023

Joan Donaldson Yarmey is Visiting and Talking about her latest release #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Mystery #Klondike #research

 1.    Tell me about your latest release or the book you wish to feature? Genre?

My latest book is called Sleuthing the Klondike. It is book two in my publisher, BWL, Inc.’s , Canadian Historical Mystery Collection. It is also the third book of my Historical Yukon Novels. The first two are Romancing the Klondike (book three of my publisher’s Canadian Historical Brides Collection) and Rushing the Klondike, which is a continuation of the Romancing the Klondike story.

 2.    Where did the idea arise?   My publisher had previously published the twelve books of the Canadian Historical Brides Collection in which a story was set in each of the ten provinces and two territories (Northwest Territories and Nunavut were combined). Because I had travelled to the Yukon twice and had hiked the Chilkoot Trail 1997 which was the hundredth anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush, I chose the Yukon of 1896/97 to write about. Then, this year BWL, Inc has begun releasing the Canadian Historical Mysteries Collection with twelve mystery novels set in each of the Canadian provinces and territories. My novel, Sleuthing the Klondike, was published in April, 2023 and takes place in the summer of 1898.

 

3. How much research was involved? Did you stay on point or be distracted by wanting to look at just one more thing?  I surfed the Internet and read many non-fiction books about the establishment of the town of Dawson City during the Klondike, and also checked to see what kind of clothes and hair styles were worn at the time and what food was brought in by boat for the stores to sell and the restaurants to serve. There was much more that I could have added and maybe I will have to write a fourth.

 

4. How long did you take to write the book?  I took part in the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November, 2022, and wrote the first 50,000 words during that month. Then it took another three months to complete the novel and do the editing.

 

5. Now a bit about you. How long have you been writing? What is your Sun Sign?  I began my writing career with a short story, progressed to travel and historical articles, and then on to travel books. Between 1990 and 2000 I traveled through and researched the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, the territory of the Yukon, and the state of Alaska and wrote seven books them.

I called these books my Backroads series and in them I described what there is to see and do along their back roads. Once I was finished travelling I switched to fiction writing and have had five other mystery novels published besides Sleuthing the Klondike: ‘A Killer Match’ is the first in my Dating Coach Mystery Series with the second book, A Lethal Proposal being published in 2024; ‘Gold Fever’ is a stand-alone mystery/romance; andIllegally Dead’, ‘The Only Shadow In The House’, and ‘Whistler's Murder’ are three novels in my Travelling Detective Series.

     I have also had two Canadian Historical novels for two young adults: West To The Bay and West to Grande Portage.and one holiday romance, The Twelve Dates of Christmas, (which was written with her sister Gwen Donaldson) published. Gwen and I we have a second holiday romance coming out in November, 2023, titled Single Bells.

       I was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Since I love change, I have moved over thirty times in my life, living on acreages and farms and in small towns and cities throughout Alberta and B.C. After seventeen years on Vancouver Island I am now back in Edmonton.

       I belong to Crime Writers of Canada and Writer’s Guild of Alberta.

I was born on April 21 so I am on the cusp of Aries and Taurus but I identify as a Taurus with some Aires traits.

 

6. Do you write in a number of genres of stick to one? Oh, I write in many different genres. I come up with an idea and write the story and then decided what genre it belongs in. But, since I love reading mystery novels, my favourite genre to write is mystery.

 

7. Where on the internet can you be found?

 

https://www.facebook.com/writingsbyJoan

http://thetravellingdetectiveseries.blogspot.com/

https://www.bookswelove.com/donaldson-yarmey-joan/

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