July 10, 2024

The End and the Beginning

Based on the true account of a young boy’s courageous escape from service in the Nazis’ last chance militia, The End and the Beginning is a […]
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 […]
July 15, 2024

Dash first hears about Elsie MacGill

When I first started writing The Secret Keeper, Gus had not yet enlisted. He and Dash worked together on cars. This was my original introduction of […]
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 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

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

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 […]
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, […]
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 […]