I have been driven to become the best possible writer I could be from a young age. At six I got a toy typewriter and I would spend my allowance on things like a thesaurus or blank paper to draw and make stories on. Every day after school in elementary I remember walking a mile to visit the library and take out books on mouse detectives or invisible ten year-olds. I remember a book I read in grade five about a young girl whose mother refused to leave their high-rise apartment. I have had some success with poetry and magazine articles, but what I really want to do is write books, and I have completed two. One is already available in many places and the other needs some fine-tuning. The second book I wrote is a novel about life in British Columbia in a small town not unlike the one I grew up in, though I grew up in Alberta. At the moment I make my living setting up stages for rock concerts and I get a small disability pension which I hope to one day cancel and live only by my own means. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder/manic depression at the age of 18 and had a very hard time until I came to accept that diagnosis as fact. For any more I guess you have to buy the book!

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• Read a great review of my book as I launch a month long blog tour: http://t.co/YzSgQsp02r
• Struggling to find a balance between working and writing. Will be out at a local signing on Mother's day. Say a prayer for me.
• Anyone saddened at the loss of Allan Arbus, the actor who played Sidney Freedman on MASH? See a parting shot here: http://t.co/ASleD9i3I1
• Sun is out today. Great time to dust off my new canon rebel and head to one of Edmonton's many parks.
• Being a writer can be tough. there are times when people call your writing garbage and those times you just have to keep on writing.

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