Month: November 2024

Christopher Cameron and John Unruh

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This episode is an encore presentation of our discussion with Chris Cameron and John Unruh about podcasting.

Chris enjoyed a successful career as a professional opera singer, retiring in 2009 and then began a new career as a freelance writer and editor. His first book, a memoir of his singing years, Dr. Bartolo’s Umbrella and Other Tales from my Surprising Operatic Life (Seraphim Editions), was published in 2017. His book of humorous fiction, Thorneside Stories: A Mix of Sun and Cloud (Iguana Books), was published in September 2022. Now Christopher brings his respect for the beauty and power of the written word to his editing and feature-writing portfolio at Watershed magazine.

John Unruh is a Northumberland writer concerned with the value of broken things and how communities come together to fix them. He’s also a consulting technical writer and editor. John grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Cobourg with his wife and son in 2021. In the past year John has become a highly valued source of answers to technical questions. This year John has published two short stories in Hill Spirits V, Blue Denim Press, and a poem in 101 Portraits, Wet Ink Books. In 2021 he published The Mime and the Girl in the November Issue of The Green Shoe Sanctuary In 2004 his story Angelic won a contest and was published in On Spec Magazine. He has also written several novels which are in various stages of completion.

Marie-Lynn Hammond

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Alongside a music career as a singer-songwriter and co-founder of the seminal Canadian

Folk group Stringband, Marie-Lynn Hammond has, for the past 40 years,

written magazine and newspaper articles; essays, including over twenty radio essays;

stage plays, all professionally produced; one feature film (co-written); a handful of

short stories; and poetry. More recently she’s co-written, with writer Michael

Kaufman, a young adult novel, Moon Storm Rising, under the pen name Kayden

Quinn.

Moon Storm Rising is part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, with strong environmental

themes. And while set in the real world, it features an unusual fantasy element that

perfectly symbolizes the inextricable link between humans and the rest of the natural

world. The book is available on Amazon.

Marie-Lynn has also worked as a copy editor for the last three decades. She copy-

edited Esi Edugyan’s first Giller-Prize winner, Half-Blood Blues, and she’s proofread

or copy-edited books by, among others, Joseph Škvorecký, Linda Spalding, Paul

Watson, and business writer Rod McQueen, and co-translated into French a book of

poems for children by Dennis Lee

Lois Gordon

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Lois is a writer and editor. She has published several humorous essays in anthologies and articles which have appeared in lifestyle magazines. Her second mystery novel, “Death at Iron House Lodge”, was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis “Best Unpublished Novel” award in 2016, and several essays have won awards. Currently, she works part-time as an editor for a digital marketing company. Lois wrote her first stage play four years ago for a community theatre in Ancaster, Ontario. The new experience rekindled her passion for writing and she has since written three more scripts for the amateur acting company. Since moving to Northumberland three years ago, Lois has volunteered with community theatre and the Northumberland Festival of the Arts, hoping to become more fully involved with the vibrant arts scene in the county.

Marie Prins

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This week we welcome Marie Prins the author of a middle-grade, time-travel book THE GIRL FROM THE ATTIC, published in 2020 from Common Deer Press. Her picture book WHO’S WALKING DAWG? was launched from Red Deer Press on October 15, 2024. Her short stories for children, memoir, nature pieces, and poetry can be found in the Hill Spirits Anthologies II – VI. She lives with her artist husband Ed Hagedorn in a historic, octagonal house in Colborne, Ontario.