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HURON COUNTY SETTING
Don Hayward grew up at a hydro-electric generating site on the Spanish River, surrounded by the natural world of the Canadian Shield hard rock country. The experience of the north has influenced Don’s feeling for the natural world. During 1970 – 71 he backpacked in Australia. Returning to Canada to study photography, Don met his wife Diane in Toronto. The family ran a small part-time farming operation in Dufferin County as Don commuted to his job in the electrical industry. Don and Diane now live in Goderich Ontario on the shore of Lake Huron.
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Born in Windsor Ontario, Rick Hundey’s careers in community planning, management, and consulting led him to Toronto, London, Southampton, and Exeter over the years.
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In 2005 Rick's first place award in the Alice Munro Writers’ Festival Short Story Contest was all the encouragement he needed to leave the safety of suits and ties for the unknown world of mystery writing.
Rick now has four Jack Beer mysteries under his belt. While it's gratifying to get two thumbs up in London Free Press reviews, Rick gets a bigger kick when his readers tell him they like the humour, the surprise endings, and the quirky dialogue.
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JUDY KEIGHTLEY
After living and travelling extensively around the world, Judy and her family settled in Canada. Pursuing her lifelong passion for the arts Judy founded the Petrolia Community Theatre, ran various workshops on creativity and writing and has been heavily involved in her local community.
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Judy was born in Africa, completed her secondary education in England and gained her Master’s Degree in Education as a mature student in Canada. She has worked as a photographer, caterer, mother and teacher and has now taken on the challenge of establishing a vineyard and winery in Huron County's beautiful west coast.
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Over the past thirty years Judy has written twenty novellas, various collections of poetry and a number of plays. Judy wrote her first full length novel in 2013 and developed it into the Rose Blair Murder Mysteries all set in the sleepy village of Bayfield on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada.
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Judy and her husband reside in Bayfield with their beloved dog Susie and cat Thomas and enjoy visits from their children and grandchildren.
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Hayley Linfield is an author living in Goderich. She has written literary fiction, horror fiction, children's stories, and creative non-fiction. Earlier in her writing career, she published several short stories and articles in various magazines, e-zines, and newspapers including the Globe and Mail, Reader's Digest, Regina Weese Literary Magazine, Death Head Grin, and KidsMagination.
In 2012, she won the Alice Munro Short Story Competition, and the following year she published her first novel, The Truth About Dandelions. More recently, in 2022, she published a book of micro-stories entitled, Rail Ties: A Story of Love (Moments Captured on the G2G), as a fundraiser for G2G Rail Trail Inc., a local hiking and cycling trail connecting Goderich to Guelph. Hayley also works as a freelance editor.
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SANDI PLEWIS
Sandi’s third novel, DANCING WITH THE SHADOWS, was published in December of 2022. Three years prior to this, her second novel, BEYOND REACH, came out in December of 2019. Her debut novel, BROKEN CHAIN, was showcased at the end of June 2016 and she now has a following of readers. Prior to this, Sandi finished in win, place and show positions in several short story contests. Most notably, she won first place in the Alice Munro Short Story contest and also had two third-place wins in the same contest. Sandi has been honoured with several top ten finishes in the Ten Stories High anthology. She’s had short stories accepted into literary journals including The New Quarterly and The Windsor Review, as well as numerous smaller publications. As well, she’s had poetry published in The Saving Bannister and The Price of Eggs anthologies.
Sandi also taught creative writing and reviewed plays for area newspapers. She currently edits and critiques for selected clients and has co-written a World War Two screenplay, along with a one-hour family-based television series, the pilot episode for a one-hour comedy/drama, and an eight-part mini-series based on her novel Broken Chain. She is currently writing her fourth novel.
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-The Village Bookshop (Bayfield)
-Seaforth Artisan Emporium (Seaforth)
-Rural Reading Room, North Huron Publishing (Blyth)
-Take Cover Books (Peterborough)
SALLY WALKER
Sally Walker was born in Toronto, grew up in Unionville, and studied at the University of Toronto. She taught in the city, then spent fifteen years as an at-home mom raising three children with her husband, David, in Goderich. She later returned to teaching. Now retired, she continues taking an active role in her community. A proud grandmother and great-grandmother, she enjoys reading, photography, community theatre, nature, travel, and writing.
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DAVID YATES
Originally from Windsor, Yates has spent the last 45 years living between Goderich and Bayfield. Just retired from 30 years of teaching secondary school history, Yates is a man who has contributed to the community in other ways as well.
He has written a local history column for the local papers and is proud to call Goderich his home, where he and his wife raised their three children.
Yates has served on boards and committees such as: Fire Board Chair, Environment Committee Chair, Heritage Committee, Marine Heritage Committee, Communities in Bloom, Past President of Huron County Historical Society, a Warden at St. George’s Anglican Church and an Executive Member of Branch 109 Legion.
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