my bio - as a writer

Publishing Credits

Creative Non-Fiction - Newspaper

• ‘Feist or Famine’ a weekly column for The Muskoka Sun newspaper, 1997-2007. A humorous look at country living.

• ‘A View From The Bridge’, a weekly column for The Muskoka Sun newspaper 1993-96

Creative Non-Fiction - Books

• ‘Tales from Cottage Country’, published in ‘Never Light a Match in the Outhouse’, Anthology of humorous short stories, 2014. Summit Studios, Victoria B

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Creative Non-Fiction Short Stories (1100-2500 words)

• ‘Sharing the Wealth’, 2018

• ‘The Beat Goes On’, 2018

• ‘Trailer Trash’, 2017

• ‘Toilet Humour’, 2015

• ‘Grandfather’s Foggy Night’, 2014

• ‘Romancing the Lobster’, 2014

• ‘Tales of Cottage Country’, 2014

• ‘Civilized & Sanitized’, 2013

• ‘Cops & Rubbers’, 2012

• ‘Bend Over for a Quarter’, 2012

• ‘A Prickly Story’, 2012

• ‘Destiny Denied’, 2011

• ‘My Ex-Spleenation’, 2010

• ‘The Gender Bender’, 2010

   

Fiction

• ‘Broken Anchor’, published 2020 (Adventure Romance debut Novel)

• ‘Finding Antonio’, 2013 (short story)

• ‘The Button’, 2011 (short story, Writer’s Union honourable mention)

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Reading Engagements

​- 2021 Muskoka Chautauqua - Reading from Broken Anchor with Author interview with Nora Fountain August 12, 2021

Tall Pine Tales (Huntsville, Bracebridge, Lake of Bays):

- 2020 (Covid 2020 Virtual Reading) Cops and Rubbers

- 2016 Excerpt from Broken Anchor

- 2015 Toilet Humour

- 2014 Romancing the Lobster

- 2013 A Prickly Story

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Muskoka Authors Assoc. (Bracebridge):

- 2016 Excerpt from Broken Anchor

- 2015 Toilet Humour

- 2014 Romancing the Lobster

- 2013 A Prickly Story

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• CBC A Christmas Carol, 2008 (Narrator, Marley’s Ghost, Spirit of Christmas Past)

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Keynote Speaker / Master of Ceremonies:

• Rotary Club of Washago 2015

• MC Tall Pine Tales Bracebridge 2014

• Bracebridge Chamber of Commerce 2003

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Writing Related Activities

• Welcoming introduction for Terry Fallis, Bracebridge 2014 Canadian Authors Assoc.

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Memberships

• Muskoka Author’s Association