In case you are wondering, I’m a writer living in Prince Edward County, a rural corner of Ontario covered with red cedars, limestone shale, tenacious farmers, new wineries and summer visitors seeking farm cuisine and actual green pastures with cows in them.

My book count is pretty big, including many romances for Harlequin, TV adaptations and some heavy-duty reference books. After those, I took to historical fiction with The Tomorrow Country.

When my agent suggested a heroine who was once a British home child (charity orphan), she probably had a bodice ripper in mind. I, however, got totally sucked into the epic 19th century child emigration movement in which Britain hit upon the idea of scooping up its unwanted pauper children and shipping them to the colonies.  The Tomorrow Country, set in 1870’s London, deals with a cast of desperate children and the equally desperate characters trying to rescue them when they aren’t trying to bamboozle each other. I could put in all the adventure, pathos, humour, romance, danger, skullduggery and crazy eccentrics I wanted.

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