A little about the Author:
I'm
a recently retired Nova Scotia high school guidance counselor who
has finally found time to devote to pursuits like writing and painting.
Though
originally from Prince Edward Island, my home for the last 37 years
has been in Barrington, on Nova Scotia's southwestern shore.
I
have always been interested in writing, even as a teenager, and in
my B.A. program took a Special Topic course in Creative Writing. While
I produced the occasional short story during my teaching career (and
occasionally made use of them in class), I found it difficult to bring
any novels I began to completion due to the demands on my time.
During
the 1980's I had a regular opinion column in the Shelburne Coast Guard
newspaper ("Through a Single Window"), and for the last
few years have continued that as a blog. The two Storm novels, while
set in Maine, have a main character who is a school counselor—I'm
writing about what I know well.
Approaching
Storm was published first, as a "first novel" and I was
thrilled with the compliments from many of its readers, who would
email me, comment on Facebook, or just come up to me in the community
to tell me how much they enjoyed the book. A number of readers suggested
they would like to see a sequel to Approaching Storm, which I hadn't
anticipated. A few of them even offered suggestions on possible plot
twists to make that happen.
I
did some thinking about the possibility, and finally decided on returning
to the characters six years later: In Storm Passing, Belle is sixteen
years old, and life suddenly takes a bad turn.
