My guest this week is author Candace MacPhie. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Candace spent years backpacking and working around the world. She has a Bachelor of Commerce degree, an MBA, and worked for twenty years on four different continents and now calls Calgary, Alberta home. She got married, had kids, and things got busy. Time was moving by quickly and her kids were growing up fast. She shifted gears and quit her job to spend time at home. During the COVID lockdown, she had time on her hands and decided to try writing, and started writing the Back in a Year series.

My guest this week is author Tina Susedik. Tina has been researching and writing books since 1997. She is published in non-fiction with military and local history books. She also has published children’s books and romantic mysteries. She loves to add humor in her books, putting her characters in situations and finding a humorous way to get them out of them. As Tina Susedik she writes for Soul Mate Publishing. As Anita Kidesu, she pens spicier romances for The Wild Rose Press. She also self-publishes her romances children's books she writes with her grandchildren. Tina belongs to the Romance Writers of America, Wisconsin Romance Writers of America, and the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association. In 1996 she established the Chippewa Valley Romance Writers, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in October of 2016. She is a member of the Published Authors Network with the Romance Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

My guest this week is author Matt Hughes. Matt is a Canadian author, he writes crime fiction, fantasy, and space opera. He has sold 24 novels to publishers large and small in the US, Canada, UK, France, and Italy, as well as more than 100 works of short fiction to professional markets.

His magnum opus is What the Wind Brings, a historical novel with magical realism elements. It was the first Canadian work to win the international Endeavour Award. He waited more than forty years to write the novel, and spent a year composing several drafts, made possible by a $25,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.6 publication.