Alberta Author Sharon Wildwind - panelist

Panelist Sharon Wildwind lives in Calgary and has published four novels in the Elizabeth Pepperhawk / Avivah Rosen series about returning Vietnam veterans, as well as a non-fiction account of her experiences as a nurse in Vietnam. She has finished the fifth book in the Vietnam series and is at work on a series set in Alberta.

More about Sharon and her books here

Alberta Author Susan Calder - panelist

Alberta Author Susan Calder, long known for her short stories, is now promoting her debut mystery novel, Deadly Fall, set in Calgary.

Susan isn't a born Westerner. She grew up in Montreal. She says, "Like many before and after me, I came to Calgary for opportunity. Go west young man, or woman. So I did."



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Alberta Author Garry Ryan - panelist

Panelist Garry Ryan is author of four published novels in the Detective Lane series set in Calgary. His fifth novel, Malabarista, comes out in September 2011.

Writing Crime on the prairies

"Every time I leave Calgary, one of the many things I look forward to upon returning is the sight of the Rocky Mountains on that western horizon. The there is the wide-open sky looking east to the horizon. It’s that combination of the sheer massiveness of the mountains on one side and that view to infinity on the other. It just seems to make almost anything possible.  Perhaps that’s why the imagination feels so powerful in this part of the world."

Garry

More about Garry and his novels here