Janet Kellough is an author and storyteller who has written and performed in many stage works that feature a fusion of music and spoken word. She published two contemporary novels before she launched into the popular Thaddeus Lewis mystery series which incorporates Ontario’s rich history into a highly-readable mystery plot. The latest in the series, Wishful Seeing, is set in the Cobourg area during the 1860s and was released this summer by Dundurn Press.

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Ted Staunton is the award winning author of many books for children and young adults. Born in Toronto, he studied at the University of Toronto. While he was studying for his B. Ed in 1981, he wrote a story called Puddleman for one of his courses and rather to his surprise it was published.  Puddleman was a picture book but he has since written many stories for older children and young adults. Some of the most recent are Who I’m Not which won him the John Spray Mystery Award, Jump Cut, and Power Chord. 

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Margaret Bain spent much of her childhood in India and is presently writing her recollections of that far-off time in the Himalayas during the last days of the British Raj. Her interest in natural history, especially ornithology, and her love of travelling have resulted in birding articles, travel essays and other non-fiction in a wide variety of publications.Currently she is involved in the writing and editing of a series of pocket nature guides, covering such subjects as shorebirds, moths, dragonflies and trees.

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Judy Fong Bates came to Canada with her mother as a six year old to join her father. Neither of her parents spoke much English, so as Judy progressed through school, immersed in this new language, she found herself living between two cultures. She became a well-known story-teller of folk tales and her own original stories in both schools and festivals all over Southern Ontario. Her first book,  China Dog and Other Stories was followed  by her critically acclaimed novel Midnight at the Dragon Café. In 2010 after several visits to China to meet her extended family, she published her memoir, The Year of Finding Memory.

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Heather knows all about being a soccer mom. Three of her kids played. In 2006, after 15 years on the sidelines, she bought some cleats and joined a team herelf. Her biggest thrill while writing Betting Game was touring the Toronto FC Training Ground.

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Daryl Sneath is a novelist who lives in Port Hope. He discusses his  writing with Gwynn and Felicity in the this episode of Word on the Hills.

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Special programming for Christmas this Sunday, so no Word on the Hills. Please join us again on January 1st to hear Darryl Sneath talk about his novels. And in the meantime  very Happy Holidays to all our listeners. Felicity and Gwynn

Kim Grove, author, editor and teacher talks about her anthology Family Ties and reads some Christmas stories from it.

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Felicity Sidnell Reid, author, and Jirina Marton, illustrator, talk about the inspiration for the story and illustrations of Alone:A Winter in the Woods

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