Writings

Justin Jack Bear is a Metis-Anishinaabe Scottish-English Canadian entrepreneur born in Calgary, AB, grew up in Sault Ste Marie, ON, and is now based in Vancouver, BC. “Jack Bear” is a trade name honouring all of his cultures. He is a proud member of the Garden River First Nation in […]

Judy Penz Sheluk lives in Northern Ontario, Canada, with her husband, Mike, and their golden retriever, Gibbs. Judy is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, Sisters in Crime International, Sisters in Crime – Guppies, Sisters in Crime – Toronto, International Thriller Writers, Inc., the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Crime Writers of Canada, where she served on the […]

By adapting a code of conduct at a young age (the Code of the Trail), Lloyd embarked on a lifelong quest to live out his every dream. He became a pilot, he had a brush with the big time in the NHL, he flew with the Snowbirds, he had remarkable […]

Bella Lucas has wanted to be a writer for a very long time. As a child, she would make up stories, winning the Young Writer Award at her school in grade 6. That was her first clue that maybe she was actually good at writing. From that moment on, becoming […]

Liisa Kovala is a Finnish-Canadian author living in Sudbury, Ontario with her husband, Michael, and their young adult children, Mia and Kieran. Liisa is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Canadian Authors Association, and president of the Sudbury Writers’ Guild. She earned a graduate certificate in Creative […]

Judy Penz Sheluk is a former journalist and magazine editor and the author of two mystery series: the Glass Dolphin Mysteries and the Marketville Mysteries. Her short crime fiction appears in several collections, including The Best Laid Plans and Heartbreaks & Half-truths, which she also edited. Before There Were Skeletons: A Marketville Mystery […]