September 16, 2024

WW2 Playlist

I cannot imagine how difficult it must be, living through a war. Whether you were in the middle of the conflict or watching – and waiting […]
September 16, 2024

Air Transport Auxiliary – Canadians!

The Air Transport Auxiliary: “Anything to Anywhere”  During my research for “The Secret Keeper” I was very fortunate to connect with some wonderfully generous archivists at […]
September 16, 2024

Funny Story

A friend of mine recommended this as a change of pace for me, and I’m so glad I grabbed it. I told her I wasn’t looking […]
August 1, 2024

Expiration Dates

I needed something light to ‘cleanse my palate’, as they say, between writing a bunch of serious stuff, and I remembered loving “In Five Years” before, […]
July 15, 2024

Elsie MacGill

Dot and Dash Wilson were two fictional WW2 heroes from Canada, but there were real ones as well. Elsie MacGill was an amazing woman, and she […]
July 15, 2024

Kiyoko

  In the first version of The Secret Keeper, Dash had a good friend named Kiyoko Sasaki, a Japanese Canadian whose family was experiencing the nightmare […]
July 15, 2024

Dash meets Joseph (who didn’t make the cut eventually)

This is a pretty long section – really, it’s a bunch of pieces that I have stitched together to make them work. There might be a […]
July 15, 2024

Gus enlists

I loved getting to know Gus, though my picture of him changed many times during the various directions this book went. One of the things that […]
July 10, 2024

Camp X

Camp X was Canada’s top secret, paramilitary training school, the only one of its kind in North America. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and others in Britain’s […]