Day 4: A Person of Interest – Book Launch Tour As we enter Manitoba, it begins to feel like going home. Anticipation mounts as we swing south to Altona and the Friesen Press plant to pick up my first shipment of books. I couldn’t wait to rip open a box and...
Day 3: A Person of Interest – Book Launch Tour As soon as Walmart opened at 7:00 we tottered in with our fellow travellers for breakfast, commuter mugs in hand, not in our jammies and fuzzy slippers. That would have been a bit much. Saskatchewan—you’ve...
Knowledge Network, Midsomer Murders and Me ! 3:30 p.m. Tuesday 26 June 2018 Merritt, BC. June 20th, 2018 was a magical night—but let me start at the beginning. In 1988, no, that’s too far back, but that’s when Knowledge Network launched their Partners...
June 26, 2018 Day 1: A Person of Interest – Book Launch Tour It’s a ‘bright, bright sunshiny day’ on this, the first day of our trip across Western Canada and the upper States. Pat says if we’re going to do this book tour, we may as well take in the Fly-In at...
My Grandmother – The Queen – and Me 23 May 2018 There was always something regal about my grandmother, Olave Wheatley Hollinshead Bowman. Although she was born in Canada, her roots were deeply planted in the United Kingdom. Olave was an avowed monarchist...
The Private Lives of My Characters Ben and Samantha each had a life before I wrote A Person of Interest Samantha Bowers has just returned to the mainland from Vancouver Island on this crisp September day. She had been whale-spotting on the deck and met someone. As...