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July 10, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
September 16, 2024
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
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 […]