Romancing the Klondike is available this month at book stores and on line.
I had worked off and on at various jobs for many years while
raising my children and when I began taking writing courses I still had teenage
children at home. I wrote some historical and travel articles and had them
published in Canadian magazines. My children had left home when I got my first
contract for a non-fiction travel book, which morphed into seven travel books
about the backroads of Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon and Alaska.
Researching and writing each one of those took up my days, evenings, and nights
for a year. When I finished the last one, I decided to try fiction writing.
I also decided to get
a job since writing can be very lonely. I took training to be a nursing
attendant also known as residential care aide and began working in a long-term
facility. I also started writing my first mystery novel. Then my husband and I
moved to a small acreage Vancouver Island and I got a job in a group home
looking after disabled adults.
I do not like getting
up to an alarm clock so I took a position in the afternoons from 4-9 pm. This gives
me time during the day to work in my yard, hike, dragonboat, pick and can or
freeze fruit from my trees, and of course, write. I am thinking about retiring
so I could have more time to write, but I have a feeling that I would also
travel more, sit and enjoy the sunsets more, visit family more.
I try to write something
every day, even if it is just some ideas for a scene or someone the main
character of my WIP will meet. Usually these ideas occur in the middle of the
night so I always keep paper and pen by my bed to write this down.
And I must be doing something right
because I have had seventeen print and e-books published since I began my
writing career.
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