A graduate of Vancouver College, Canadian author Anton Von Stefan spent his childhood growing up in Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia. After working for forty-two years at the Pacific Grain Terminal on Vancouver\u2019s waterfront, the author became a full-time writer. In his spare time, he briefly worked for the Herald and Times, a West Side newspaper and the City Drive News, an East End newspaper which unfortunately folded in late 2002.<\/p>\n
For ten years, he organized murder mystery weekends at Mayne Island\u2019s Springwater Lodge for Vancouver\u2019s Pacific Ski Club. At precisely midnight on the first night the author would read one of his completed ghost stories. Since then, he has held author\u2019s readings at Cole\u2019s Books in Langford, Western Sky Books in Port Coquitlam and at his home in Delta, British Columbia, in North Sydney on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia; and twice in the author\u2019s birth city of Vienna at Shakespeare and Company.<\/p>\n
The author is currently in negotiations to bring A Very Strange Christmas! to the world stage and is working on his third book, The Curse of Count Louie Vincenti.\u00a0 You can read about the author and his work at: www.antonvonstefan.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A charming little Christmas tale which takes place at the height of the Great Depression, on Christmas Eve 1932. A loner, penniless and hungry, is out on the prowl to alleviate his dire situation while a winter snowstorm is settling in for the night. Magical things begin to take place as he is about to pounce on his chosen victim which show him glimpses of better times, a time when his parents were still alive. As the action moves from one scene to the next, he is continuously hindered in accomplishing his ill deed until fate places him in a situation where he accidentally ends up helping another human.<\/p>\n As fortune has suddenly smiled upon him, he longs for a hot meal and an evening of drink before the bars close on that Christmas Eve. Yet, other enchanting events occur which bring the loner to a point where he realizes he has the opportunity to help one of his intended victims before the evening ends. With that decision made, he finds happiness and, in the years ahead, everyone\u2019s life is transformed for the better.<\/p>\n ISBN: 9781989467152 (paperback). $17.95 CDN, $14.95 USD.<\/p>\n
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