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Saint Augustine, the Christian theologian and philosopher once said: “The world is a book. And those who do not travel read only a page.” This sentiment echoes through the work of Jennifer Chapin who blends her love of the publishing industry with travel, philosophy, and a little magic. By day, Chapin is a publishing consultant at…
“Why don’t you write a book about your life?” asked my ex-wife as she poured herself a cup of earl grey tea one summer afternoon. We were sitting on the empty patio at Gallagher’s coffee shop in Port Moody, listening to the sounds of birds chirping in the background of our conversation. “Nobody would want…
In light of Bell Let’s Talk and a growing conversation on mental illness, Canadian author and songwriter Colleen Songs offers her perspective as the caregiver and loved one to a partner who was mentally ill. She shares with readers her escape from a significant other with a narcissistic personality disorder and mental illness, in her memoir INHALE.…
Prior to becoming a published author, Walls admits that she was always in love with writing. “I’ve grown up always being a writer of some sort,” she says. “I like people. And therefore, when you put the two together I like storytelling because they kind of go together. I like to write about people, what…
We’ve all heard the saying “people can change” at one point or another. While we might not always believe it, there’s no denying Kathy Tuccaro did just that. After years of physical, verbal and sexual abuse, assault, violence, eating disorders, substance abuse, job loss and homelessness, Tuccaro decided to start writing a different ending for…
Each year there are fewer and fewer Second World War veterans, and as they pass away, a lot of their war stories are lost with them. But WWII Canadian fighter pilot, Jack Henry Hilton, put his memories in a book so they won’t be forgotten. Tellwell published his memoir The Saga of a Canadian Typhoon…