Our Authors
List of some of our more recent authors
Jan Krijff
Jan Krijff was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada in 1968. He has a BA in Economics from the University of Calgary, and a master’s degree in history, from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Jan has previously published 100 Years Ago: Dutch Immigration to Manitoba in 1893; Een Aangename Vriendschap (An Amicable Friendship); Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers in Canada (with Herman Ganzevoort), and Greetings from Canada: Postcards from Dutch Immigrants to the Netherlands 1884–1915. The latter received an honourable mention for history in the Indie Fab awards.
Karen Green
Karen Green was born in southern Alberta. She has a BA and an LL.B from the University of Alberta, having practiced law in Edmonton and, more recently, in Vancouver where she worked in human resources and labour relations for various organizations. For twelve years, she also served as a part-time chair of review panels under the B.C. Mental Health Act. She is the co-author of Greetings from Canada and contributed to Dutch Gentlemen Adventurers.
Linda Frimer
Linda Dayan Frimer is an internationally recognized artist whose work addresses questions of culture, memory, trauma and reverence for the natural environment. She is a celebrated facilitator and painter who produces cultural, commemora- tive, educational and esthetically powerful contributions, and whose artworks have been described as “impactful,” “stun- ning,” “emotionally moving,” “enthralling” and “meaningful.”
Born in the wilderness town of Wells, British Columbia, from a young age Frimer was immersed in in the wonder of the forest, rivers and mountains. It was in these formative years, surrounded by the awe-inspiring natural landscape, that Frimer developed her creative vision. It was also during these early years when she first learned of war and cultural suffering. Becoming determined to champion and protect the sanctity of all life forms, Frimer turned to the creation of art as her natural medium.
Frimer’s artworks have repeatedly been called upon to represent—through fundraising, awareness and education—the work of environmental organizations, such as the Trans Canada Trail, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, who promote Canada’s vast cultural and geographic diversity, wilderness preservation and the interdependency of nature and wildlife, and spread knowledge about endangered species. Paul George, former Director of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, has offered that perhaps equally important to the fundraising, Frimer’s work “touched upon the emotional and spiritual cords, where real change occurs.”
Alongside Frimer’s artworks championing the environment, significant collections and donations of her works have support- ed Margaret Laurence House, Canadian Red Cross, Canadian Cancer Society, Vancouver General Hospital, Richmond General Hospital, Children’s Hospital Foundation, Wells Community Hall and the Vancouver Art Gallery, among others. She is the recipient of many awards, including an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of the Fraser Valley. Her murals illuminate hospital walls, synagogue sanctuaries and university corridors, where it has been said they “offer healing colours that contain emotional, life enforcing light, a calming rhythmic movement and imaginative forms that are visionary.”
Frimer has facilitated cultural healing workshops between various cultural groups. She is co-founder and facilitator of the Gesher Holocaust Project, in which she developed techniques and worked with multi- generations of Holocaust survivors and their children to release trauma through art. This project resulted in the creation of powerful commemorative works of art that were exhibited throughout major cities in North America under the auspices of the Montreal Holocaust Centre.
Frimer is co-author of In Honour of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival, a collaboration between two Jewish and two First Nations artists and poets that brought together research and creative exploration as a means to process trauma associated with cultural oppression and at- tempted genocide. In her book A Wilderness Journey, Frimer explores the inextricable link between her own ancestral story, her love of the wilderness and cultural resilience.
To read more about Linda Dayan Frimer, please visit her website here.
Hugh Greer
Hugh Greer was born and raised in Burnaby, British Columbia. He worked thirty-five years for the Vancouver School District as a secondary school teacher, counsellor and vice-principal.
After retiring in 2009, he and his wife, Wendy, travelled extensive- ly and have great plans to continue their adventures when possible. He is the father of two adult daughters and is blessed with the gift of three energetic and intelligent grandsons.
His reputation of being a ‘late bloomer’ continues. He completed 11,000 Days at School at age seventy-one.
Jim Kerr
Jim Kerr was born in 1945 and was brought up in Kelowna, BC. He attended the University of British Columbia out of high school and dropped out after his first year to hitchhike through Europe and North Africa with his best friend, Blair Campbell.
Soon after, Jim returned to earn an arts degree in economics at UBC, after discovering his knack for quick calculations at currency-exchange booths over the course of his journey. He has lived in Vancouver, BC, ever since and enjoys golfing and travel during his retirement after a successful career as a partner in a national chartered accounting firm.
After many years boring his close friends and family with countless stories of his epic voyage, he committed to writing Meet Me in Cairo at their behest. Jim is married to his wife, Kelly, and has three daughters and one son. He currently spends a quarter of the year travelling around the world, often arranging adventure bike tours with friends to far-flung places such as Chile and Myanmar.
You can read up a bit more about Jim’s book here.
Brian Hayden
Dr. Brian Hayden is an author and archaeologist who has conducted research on four continents. His passion is to understand what cultures were like in the past—especially hunting and gathering cultures—and why they have changed. He obtained a Certificate of Prehistory at the University of Bordeaux and he studied stone-tool making with Australian Aborigines. His doctoral degree is in Archaeology from the University of Toronto. For 30 years, he worked with native groups in the interior of British Columbia recording their traditional uses of food resources and excavating an amazing prehistoric winter village at Keatley Creek.
Now a Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University and Honorary Research Associate of the Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Brian Hayden has published numerous professional journal articles and books, including works on the Old Stone Age in France and a landmark synthesis of prehistoric religion. His research has been recognized by his induction into the Royal Society of Canada. Originally born in New York, Dr. Hayden now lives on Cortes Island, in coastal British Columbia.
You can find out more about Brian here.
John D. May
Johnny May’s Biology degree, his years at IBM as a programmer analyst, and his three decades as a practicing Medical Doctor uniquely qualify him to write this book. He knows people, he knows science and he knows computer systems. He also has a boundless imagination.
As a singer songwriter he has written songs for well known Canadian artists and has released two CDs and a recent single “This Way” which is popular on YouTube.
His time is divided between his rural farm property near Toronto and the south of France.
Johnny May Words and Music website
Jaime Smith
Smith’s path would ultimately lead him to British Columbia, where he was a university teacher in physics, mathematics and astronomy before changing careers and receiving his MD, followed by four years of training in psychiatry at the University of British Columbia.
Smith was a participant in the fight to destigmatize homosexuality within the medical community and served on the front line of the AIDS epidemic in Vancouver, BC.
A widower since 2011, he has three daughters, seven grandsons and four greatgrandchildren.
To read more of Jaime’s writing, visit his website: https://karhunluola.wordpress.com
Nico Roselli
Nico Roselli was born and grew up in Vancouver, BC. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2019 with his BA, where he majored in political science and minored in the Law and Society program. A two-time member of the President’s Honour Society in high school, he is also a recipient of the Brother J.P. Keane General Excellence Award.
Since writing Hitting Your Stride, Roselli has begun to explore a career in teaching. He currently works in Vancouver schools as a Teacher On Call (TOC). His next goal is to attend Simon Fraser University to complete the Professional Development Program for aspiring elementary and secondary school teachers. A devoted lover of sports and coffee, Roselli can be found cheering on his teams with his peers and frequenting the local cafés and pubs of Vancouver. He plans to continue writing, in both fiction and non-fiction genres.
Michael Dupuis
Michael Dupuis is a retired history teacher, consultant and author. For nearly 50 years, his writing has focused on the role played by journalists in historical events. His previous non-fiction works focus on the Winnipeg General Strike and the Halifax explosion. Michael holds a BA in English and an MA in Canadian History from the University of Ottawa and a BEd from the University of Toronto. This is his first novel.
Gogs Gagnon
A native of New Westminster, Gogs Gagnon followed an early passion for computers by becoming a programmer and independent technology consultant. In the course of his career, he has developed software for Apple, IBM, and the government of British Columbia where he was lead programmer analyst and data architect.
Now, in addition to promoting prostate cancer health, Gogs devotes much of his time to writing. His next book is a coming-of-age novel set in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia during the 1970s.
The father of three children, Gogs lives with his wife and their two dogs in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.
You can follow him at: www.gogsgagnon.com
Ann Pearson
Ann Pearson grew up in Suffolk, England, did an Honours degree in French at the University of London before moving to Vancouver where she completed a Ph. D in French literature. Subsequently, she taught French for a number of years before joining the Arts One programme at the University of British Columbia. When she is not at her desk, she is happiest in muddy jeans and wild hair tending her garden, or pursuing Stendhal and other characters down the byways of Europe in the company of her historian partner, Allan.
She is currently working on a second Napoleonic era novel, set in Cornwall this time.
You can follow her at: www.annpearsonauthor.com
Bruno Huber
Bruno Huber was born and raised in Zürich, Switzerland.
He immigrated and settled in Canada, and ended up in Gibsons, near Vancouver, B.C. where he still lives with his wife Elizabeth.
He was the winner of the Höhnharter Wanderpreis, a German literary prize with a subsequent book of short stories, published by Ullstein.
He owned and operated, Coast Books in Gibsons as well as an iconic French restaurant in Vancouver’s West End. FOLLY BISTRO is his humorous account of that adventure.
For the past twenty-five years he has been a lighting technician in Vancouver’s film industry.
You can follow his blog at: www.brunospointofview.com
Pia Edberg
Pia Edberg is an author and artist. With a passion for human nature, she has spent over fifteen years studying personal development and has worked in human resources in the film and animation industries for the past ten years.
Pia wants to dedicate her time to sharing what she’s learned while inspiring others through her works. Pia was born in Denmark and currently lives in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada.
To learn more, visit www.piaedberg.com
Duane Lawrence
Duane Lawrence lives in Vancouver, B.C. where he teaches high school French and enjoys regular walks in beautiful Stanley park. It was during one leisurely stroll in the park that he decided to write about the animals that live there. This is Duane’s second story about Sammy and Rodney and their adventures.
A third story is in the works. Duane taught English in central Japan for 9 years and was a high school French teacher in London, England for one year. In addition to English, Duane speaks French and Japanese.
You can follow him at: www.duanelawrence.ca
Susan Hyatt
Susan Hyatt pioneered destination-wedding planning and has been doing it for 25 years. Combining her talents and passion, she created Tabletops by Susan. Her offers to style tables while travelling have resulted in warm relationships and chefs sharing their favourite recipes, some of which are included in this book. If, like her, you enjoy entertaining and want your guests to feel cherished, learn to create the wow factor from this professional.
You can follow Susan at www.tabletopsbysusan.com or on her Facebook page.
Peter Marcus
Peter Marcus was born in Toronto on July 31, 1945. He moved to Vancouver in 1966. For many years he worked in health care, retiring in 2002. He was active in the Hospital Employees’ Union and in leftist politics. In his retirement he remains active, particularly with the Communist Party of Canada. His poetry attempts to reflect his socialist leanings.
You can follow Peter here.
