An interview with journalist, editor, crime writer, and the CWC representative of Saskatchewan, Joanne Paulson.
About Joanne,
J.C. Paulson thinks a mystery can — perhaps should — also be a love story.
Switching from fact (journalism) to fiction, it seemed a natural thing to combine the two. Evil versus good. Hate versus love. Think Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, and a host of cozy mystery couples — not that her first three novels, Adam's Witness, Broken Through and Fire Lake, are very cozy.
Changing the world would be nice, too. Fiction allows us to swallow the bitter pills of social injustice and still (hopefully) be entranced, entertained and entangled in their solutions.
A rabid reader of mystery novels, J.C. Paulson has long admired the works of Dorothy Sayers, P.D. James and Ann Cleeves. She lives in a rambling bungalow on a quiet street in a Canadian prairie city with her husband.
A.J. Fotheringham is a Montreal-based writer who, at the age of 9, started a lifelong love of words. She used this skill to build a career in journalism, communications, translation, and publishing. She has published a children’s book, a poetry book, short stories, and non-fiction. She is currently writing the Lamb’s Bay Mysteries, a cozy mystery series based in the fictional town of Lamb’s Bay, a coastal community whose charming atmosphere hides a series of secrets.
Julie Hiner is an author, publisher, blogger, and Alberta’s regional rep for Crime Crimewriters Canada.
Julie spent over a decade working as a computer scientist on large scale network systems. On a break between contracts, Julie followed her passion for writing. She has had a long-time fascination with the complexity of the dark mind of the serial killer. Finding inspiration at a talk given by a local homicide detective, Julie surged down her new path to writing a dark, serial killer novel.
Now, Julie serves up toxic cocktails of 80s metal, ritualistic murder, and raw horror at KillersAndDemons.com.
FINAL TRACK (Detective Mahoney Series Book 1) is a 2022 Finalist Kindle Book Awards Horror/Suspense.
Diane Bator is the Ontario: Southwest/North/Greater Toronto Area regional representative for Crime Crime Writers Canada. She is a prolific writer published by BWL Publishing. She is a member of WCYR, Sisters in Crime, and a board member for the Crime Writers of Canada. She is the author of several mystery series and a budding playwright.
A Conversation with WINONA KENT
Meet the Board is a series of interviews with the Crime Writers of Canada’s Board Members. In episode 2 we talk to Winona Kent, the vice-chair of the CWC and BC/Yukon representative.
Author Bio
Winona Kent is an award-winning author who was born in London, England and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she completed her BA in English at the University of Regina. After moving to Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.
Winona is the author of the Jason Davey mystery series featuring professional musician/amateur sleuth Jason (Davey) Figgis. Her latest release, Ticket to Ride, is the fourth book in the series.
learn more at http://www.winonakent.com/
Meet the Board is a series of interviews with the Crime Writers of Canada’s Board Members. Season 2, Episode 1 starts at the top with our new Chair, Hyacinthe Miller. We talk about her writing and about the future of the CWC.
Author Bio
Hyacinthe is an award-winning author of short stories, magazine and newspaper articles, contemporary women’s fiction and non-fiction. She is the founder and President of the Writers’ Community of York Region and an organizational development consultant. Her fiction has been published in Herotica 7, Whispered Words, and Allucinor, The Elements of Romance.
Her debut novel, KENORA REINVENTED, features strong female and male protagonists. Each of them has baggage and is skittish about romantic entanglements, but they long to kindle a mature love that lasts.
Kenora Reinvented propels readers into a binge-worthy whodunit that will keep them engaged until the last page.
