HEATHER’S POSTS

  • Discover the talented duo behind Coast Raven Design Studio
    Want to know who created the wooden, First Nations carving of a sun, which appears on the police station wall of the TV show Murder in a Small Town? Read my profile in the spring issue of Sunshine Coast Life magazine. You’ll discover the talented, creative duo who have worked…
  • Audiobook version of memoir now available
    If you like to listen to, rather than read, stories, I invite you to check out the new audiobook version of my memoir No Letter in Your Pocket. As of mid-March 2026, it is available on Amazon, Spotify, Kobo, Google Play Audio and other sites. If audiobooks aren’t your thing,…
  • 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…

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