Join us Tuesday, October 17 at 7:00 pm Pacific for a Regional Spotlight featuring the Coquitlam Writer Group with host Meaghan Hackinen. Q & A to follow. Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a link will be sent to you. When it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm!
Margarita Escobar is a former Neonatal ICU nurse and a midwife. She is a bilingual writer. Margarita writes in English and Spanish. Her debut short story collection and a novelette ‘Under a Weeping Willow’ was published in June 2023.
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Janice Hodge's passion for writing came from her early love of the printed word. Books have always played a huge role in her life. Her life experiences have exposed her to many different paths which fired her imagination and filled her with stories. Trickles of her jobs as a psychiatric aide, a store detective and creativity director have influenced her writing. Janice lives in Maple Ridge with her husband and standard poodle Casanova.
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Chuck Scott spent much of his life in the wilder parts of Western Canada, as a naturalist, firefighter, and forester. He has photographed the depths of the Red Sea and the high treetop canopy of the Amazon Rainforest. As a young soldier Chuck learned many of life’s lessons taught by cold, fatigue and good comrades. Therefore, he is no stranger to grizzly bears, parachutes, and pistols. In his writing Chuck brings an authentic experience to the reader. His characters are real, with real human strengths and weaknesses, so no superheroes need apply.
Chuck is CEO of Wild Tours International Ltd, operating adventure tours into the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia, and Amazon Jungle in Brazil. The company also offers sightseeing tours in classic Cadillacs around the Vancouver area. Chuck writes a popular adventure blog and offers seminars in basic wilderness comfort skills. He lives with his wife and son in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, at the foot of the forested mountains he loves.
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Malcolm van Delst stands out as a lazy writer in a profession notorious for idlers and bums. She crowd-sourced this bio. She is a former lady who codes, a sometime bitcoin miner fond of get-rich-quick schemes and has a knack for dramatifying.
Originally from Ottawa, Canada, Malcolm now lives in Vancouver. She would never use the upside down facelift technique in a photo.
Marie Mackay is a British-Canadian author, cover designer, and ex nurse. She writes angsty romance full time and has done since 2022. She lives with two kitties and a wonderful husband who feeds and waters her so she can write on without expiring—which is a very legitimate concern when nearing deadlines. Maria has a huge passion for the bookish community, both with fellow readers and fellow authors. She also has a passion for art, and she does all my own covers and character art, fueling what is quickly turning into a rather extreme sticker buying addiction. Born in 94, Maria is currently living in BC, Canada, and doesn't have any plans to change that soon!
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Gabriole Sinclaire was born in 1945 in Montreal. From the age of nine she grew up in beautiful British Columbia. As a young student she became romanced by the written word, probably thanks to the fact that her parents opted not to have a television. Instead, there were weekly visits to the library where she prowled around the adult section using her mother’s card to take out novels that might shed light on the mysteries of sex, love and the meaning of life.
Although, as a young student, Gabriole had discovered a passion for words, marriage to a professional musician in her early twenties introduced her to jazz. A new infatuation was born, one that lasted much longer than the marriage. She’s been a professional pianist, a singer/songwriter, an artist, a teacher, a seeker, and mother of two sons, delivering her firstborn in a remote logging community on North West coast of Vancouver Island, no phone, no electricity and many bears. Gabriole now lives in Port Coquitlam, close to Vancouver. Even here, bears occasionally stroll through the backyard. Gabriole has returned to her first love, writing, and with a lifetime of experiences to draw on, she has combined music and suspense in her first mystery, Timing is Everything.
Meaghan Hackinen (host) is a writer and ultra-cyclist whose two-wheeled adventures have taken her from Haida Gwaii to Mexico’s high plateaus, across Canada and the United States, from North Cape to Tarifa along Europe’s highest paved roads, and most recently from Belgium to Bulgaria in the Transcontinental Race. Meaghan’s debut travel memoir, South Away (NeWest Press, 2019) was a finalist for two Canadian book awards. Her follow up, Shifting Gears: Coast to Coast on the Trans Am Bike Race, hit shelves this October.
*This event will be recorded.
