Kim serves on the NFOTA Steering and Communications Committees and helps with the website and social media. Who are you? I was born and grew up in Bermuda, married a Canadian and moved to Toronto, where we raised our kids, and I began writing short stories. After our younger daughter finished university, my husband and…
Category: Authors
Old Friends by K.D. Miller
K.D. Miller, visiting writer at the 2019 Festival of the Arts, talks about the fun side of writing. We don’t hear enough about the fun side of writing. Too often, the process and the life are depicted as creative martyrdom, fraught with dead ends and disappointments. I’m not suggesting the down side does not exist….
Reason for Hope by Paul Mason
I’m a novelist, playwright, and, since I retired from teaching in 2015, a voice, television and film actor, and if I’d enjoyed significant success in any of those fields, I’d be living on a grander scale than I actually do! I have four novels and a collection of stories for children in print. I wrote…
Meet the Faces Behind NFOTA: Shane Joseph
Cobourg author Shane Joseph is NFOTA’s Chair of Communications. Who are you? I am a writer and a publisher, living in Cobourg, Northumberland County. As a writer, I have 6 novels and 3 collections of short stories published to date, and countless articles, essays, book reviews, and stories published globally. My press, Blue Denim Press,…
In Spite of… by Linda Hutsell-Manning
In spite of Covid still haunting our lives, of produce spilling out of our vegetable garden faster than we can process it and, in spite of heat and humidity, I finally have a new writing project, a memoir about my unorthodox childhood. The first nine years of my life were idyllic. I was an only…
The Dog as Muse by Susan Statham
Born July 24, 2019, Artie, (AKA Arthur Conan Doyle) became my constant companion in early October. I’d met his dog mother, Bella, a year earlier during one of the ever-increasing vet visits for my fifteen-year-old French Bulldog, Janie (AKA Miss Jane Marple). “Ah you have a Frenchie too,” I said, acknowledging something of which I’m…
Meet the Faces Behind NFOTA: Cynthia Reyes
We commit an act of art when we use our imagination to create something new that tells a story the creator needs to tell.–Cynthia Reyes Who are you? I’m a mom, a new grandmother, and wife of a man who cooks, cycles, takes great photos and tells funny jokes. Thank God I’m a better gardener…
Complementary Views by Ronald Mackay
You may be forgiven for assuming that because we live on Rice Lake we must own a pontoon or at least a boat with a motor to putter about in. We don’t. Despite Viviana’s coaxing I’ve remained uncompromising. Internal combustion engines exasperate me. Until I was over thirty, I never owned a car, though I…