I am a writer, a retired sheep farmer and a retired United Church minister. As a minister, I’ve worked mostly in rural Ontario churches, though during my training I spent time in inner city Montreal.
As well as writing fantasy novels and literary short stories, I write a regular spirituality column called Between Our Steps.
My first two novels are set in ancient Greece, and the demands of thorough research required travel to check out the locations and to feel the dynamics underlying the story. On that trip I discovered the Acheron River in western Greece near Parga. Ice cold water flows through a deep canyon with twisted oaks growing among bubbling pools. Soon, I will go back to a novel set on Mount Pelion, the ancient home of centaurs, and I suppose a trip back to eastern Greece will be required.
My next series is a contemporary fantasy drawing on Celtic mythology and Arthurian legend. The first book is set in rural Ontario. The second is a quest for the heirs of Arthur, set on the British Isles. The third, set in Brittany, tells the story of the hiding of the grail (a vision stone) in 500CE and its finding in the modern day side by side.
My latest is a (mild) distopia set in Toronto 2052. Called Unseen it is published by Brain Lag Books
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