Phil Nealy is a career counsellor with a long history of working with students to help them find new directions. He currently acts as the senior admissions advisor for the Victoria campus of Sprott Shaw College.
Following a diving accident, Nealy was diagnosed as quadriplegic who would need a lifetime of constant care. Refusing predictions of his limitations from doctors, he strove to regain movement. He now lives independently, spending his leisure time exploring nature across Vancouver Island, swimming and snorkelling in the Caribbean.
He lives in Langford, BC.
A native of New Westminster, Gogs Gagnon followed an early passion for computers by becoming a programmer and independent technology consultant. In the course of his career, he has developed software for Apple, IBM, and the government of British Columbia where he was the lead programmer analyst and data architect.
Now, in addition to promoting prostate cancer awareness, Gogs devotes much of his time to writing. His next book is a coming-of age memoir set in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia during the 1970s.
The father of three children, Gogs lives with his wife and their two dogs in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, BC.
You can follow along with Gogs journey on his website at www.gogsgagnon.com
Graeme McCreath was born in the United Kingdom and became blind at age 9. Initially trained as a shorthand typist, he has beaten the odds and, through his tenacity and strength of purpose, has worked all his life. He lives with his wife and family in Victoria, BC, where he works as a physiotherapist in their private practice. Over the years, he has gained a passion for blind civil rights.
Tricia Cook was born in Hull, Yorkshire, before World War II, studied nursing, married, and immigrated to Canada with her husband and three children.
Writing poetry helped her survive the rigours of life in northern British Columbia, before she moved to Metro Vancouver. There she worked, got further healthcare training, divorced and eventually remarried. Forced to retire because of a disability, she went on to take courses and to volunteer in hospice and arthritis care for thirty years, often acting as a counsellor. When she found out her younger sister had also been abused, she knew she had to tell others to speak up.
After moving to Vancouver Island, she started typing this revealing memoir.
Newly retired baby boomers, Irene Butler and her husband, Rick, chose to escape routine and trek the globe for a year. Disciplined adventurers, they experienced all the joys and challenges of travel and yet still managed to stay within their planned budget.
Their goal: to travel to twelve countries over twelve months for the same cost as living at home. Irene recounts their adventures with an ironic sense of humour, all the while immersing her readers in culture and allowing them to share in their memorable experiences.
In addition to being a first-time author, Pauline Daniel is the owner of Coaching Connections, a life-coaching practice serving women. She calls herself the How to Follow Your Heart Coach, which is the way she lives her life.
Pauline and her husband Jim live in a small mountain town in southeast British Columbia. Jack and his family live nearby.
Follow Pauline on her Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/babyboomerbuba/
