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  • Client’s new novel on human trafficking available on Amazon
    I’m pleased to announce that Jane in Plain Sight, a poignant debut novel by a recent client, Texas psychiatrist Olga Tolscik, is now available on Amazon. I copy-edited this engaging book, which reveals how easily and publicly a sex trafficker can target and deceive a vulnerable young woman in New…
  • Shawn Hunt’s paintings ‘explode with fluid edginess’
    Stellar Heiltsuk artist Shawn Hunt has shown his edgy art, including sculpture, paintings, and carvings, around the world. Thanks to a 2017 collaboration with Microsoft Vancouver, his Transformer Mask of a raven reveals the magic that can happen when you combine modern technology with traditional and mythic Heiltsuk forms. Find…
  • New water pumps & tanks needed: Help Lombok’s endangered sea turtles thrive
    STORY AND PHOTOS BY HEATHER CONN Part two in a two-part series Every day, the Lombok Sea Turtle Conservation Project in Indonesia requires hundreds of litres of fresh salt water to clean and refill its open-air tanks. Run by the international nonprofit Green Lion, the program uses sea water drawn…
  • shishalh Nation photographer Jordan Louie profiled in fall 2025
    Both Jordan and I started photography with the same camera: an all-manual Pentax K1000. Both of us received this camera as a gift. Many decades later, he’s now shooting thousands of images for the shishalh Nation and has had multiple exhibits on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, including at the Museum and…
  • Lombok conservation project aims to boost sea turtle survival rate 50-70%
    As two-foot waves roll onto the sandy shoreline on quiet Landang Luar Beach in Lombok, Indonesia, I’m one of a dozen westerners huddling close to the water’s edge. It’s just before dusk. We’re not watching a floating clump of tourist surfers or wondering if nearby local fishermen, standing calf-deep in…
  • Author readings Oct. 17 at Gumboot Cafe
    Poetry. Horror. Humour. Fiction. Nonfiction. Live music . . . It was a treat to join about a dozen local authors, of diverse genres, and musician Rae Armour on Oct. 17 on opening day of the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl. We had a packed house at the Gumboot Cafe in…

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