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  Welcome to Canadian Author Reed Stirling, also published by BWL Publishing! Reed Stirling, my authored self, lives in Cowichan Bay, BC, and writes when not painting landscapes, travelling, or taking coffee at The Drumroaster, a local café where physics and metaphysics clash daily. Before retiring and taking up writing novels as a past time, I taught English Literature. Joyce Carol Oates oversaw my M.A. thesis. Several talented students of mine have gone on to become successful award-winning writers. My wife and I built a log home in the hills of southern Vancouver Island, and survived totally off the grid for twenty-five years during which time the rooms in that house filled up with books, thousands of student essays were graded, and innumerable cords of firewood were split. Shades Of Persephone, published in 2019, is a literary mystery set in Greece. Lighting The Lamp, a fictional memoir, was published in March 2020. Séjour Saint-Louis (2021) resolves the drama of father-son

  DEAD WITHOUT REMORSE   The Newest Novel in The Gilda Wright Mystery Series by prolific mystery writer, Diane Bator   Released by BWL Publishing The book is available worldwide in digital and print format An explosion leaves a gaping hole in the streetscape where the Nine Lives Consignment Shop and the former martial arts school once stood. When police find remains of a bomb inside, Gilda Wright needs to track a killer before her suspects scatter like debris. Amazon.com:   Amazon - Dead Without Remorse (Gilda Wright Mystery): Bator, Diane: 9780228618751: Books Amazon.ca:  Dead Without Remorse : Bator, Diane: Books (amazon.ca)   Other Books in The Series:         About The Author A prolific Canadian mystery writer, I am the mom of three kids, two cats and a step-dog as well as author of Wild Blue Mysteries, Gilda Wright Mysteries, Glitter Bay Mysteries, and the Sugarwood Mysteries from Books We Love Ltd. with many more books and plays to come! You can find me at: Blog:

  Welcome Ella Harvey, a fellow member of The Writers' Union of Canada! Her amazing new book comes out September 2022, but you can check out her first book, Encounters on the Front Line!                       Ella Harvey is a retired nurse with a B.Sc in Nursing from the University of Victoria. Her diverse career and adventurous spirit have taken her to remote regions of the world, with experiences in Asia and Africa marking her world view. She has lived on five continents and worked on four. Ella presently lives in beautiful Victoria on the west coast of Canada, yet is frequently found dreaming of elsewhere. Links: My website www.ellaharvey.ca FB   https://www.facebook.com/Ella-Harvey-Author Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-harvey Publisher: www.rmbooks.com Amazon author page for Encounters on the Front Line (first book) https://www.amazon.ca/Encounters-Front-Line-Cambodia-Memoir/dp/1927559669 How many hours a day do you write? My writing habits are irr

Welcome back to another Round Robin Blog Fest! These are always so much fun and interesting to learn more about our authors and their work. This month’s topic is fully loaded! We had a lot to choose from:   Have you ever included current social, political, or environmental problems in any of your stories or thought about doing so? Why or why not? Such as: Do you ever include politics in your stories (why and how?) Do you ever address topics like discrimination or race relations? After your characters with or against law enforcement and do you include the current climate of anti-law enforcement in your writing have you incorporated gay/lesbian characters?  how does the current economic climate feature in your books? Have you ever included current wars in your books? Has terrorism ever appeared in any of your stories? Do any of your characters address going green/global warming?   So interesting that’s the topic that came up th

  GROLAR Half Grizzly Half Polar Bear   A Novel of Horror in Nature Like No Other By Critically Acclaimed Author and Musician Thorsten Nesch The book is available worldwide in digital across all platforms and as an audio book on Audible!   Grolar: half grizzly bear, half polar bear Jon lost his job in Vancouver and finds work at a small gold mining camp. His wife and his young son join him. When the toddler shows them what he had found near the tree line, they know, there is something dark waiting for them. Amazon.ca:   Grolar: Half Grizzly Half Polar Bear eBook : Nesch, Thorsten, Hilden, Barbara: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Amazon.com:  Grolar: Half Grizzly Half Polar Bear: Nesch, Thorsten, Hilden, Barbara: 9781980305774: Books: Amazon.com Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Grolar-Audiobook/B07CZPTLM3 “For an author well known for his young adult books, this story is a sizzling adult mystery/horror admixed with interpersonal relationships, as in marital conflicts, that brin

  Daughter Of Hades Telling the Complicated History of the Caribbean Through the Eyes Of Two Sets of Siblings   NOW SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 HAWTHORNE PRIZE!!!   Released and published by Inklings Publishing The book is available worldwide in e-format Mack Little’s sophomore novel traces the fascinating and often painful Caribbean history through the life experience of siblings as they try to escape their homes and strive for a better life. Amazon.com Link:   Amazon.com: Daughter of Hades: Book 1 of the Love & Peace Series: 9781944428686: Little, Mack: Books Amazon.ca: Daughter of Hades: Book 1 of the Love & Peace Series : Little, Mack: Amazon.ca: Books   Daughter of Hades first depicts the story of Dinny and Jimmie, twin brother and sister who have grown up as enslaved people on a plantation in Barbados. When Dinny’s life faces more threats as the master’s infatuation with her grows, the siblings make their way onto a pirate ship. Though safety will not come yet fo