Glenda Higgins shares stories of life in Canada – a beautiful and vast land. She has visited and or  lived all across Canada and even went to the Arctic. 

Some of the stories are from Canada’s past, like WWII, in The Rat Pack. 

Living in Vancouver for many years, she would look outside her office window in the downtown area  and picture how it would be if there was the earthquake that the experts always insist will happen, they  just don’t know when. The homeless are abundant in that city and one homeless woman had an  unusual take on the earthquake in Butterflies Have Bad Breath. 

Moving on to the experiences she had in the Rockies near Banff, she writes about, in a fictional way,  her interesting camping experience, combined with musical hippies and a clever grizzly with an  appetite for pies, etc. in The Bad Flute Player. 

The stories continue with some classical guitar playing experiences in The Green Alien From Mars , a  brave little girl in a zoo outside of Banff who also has a unique take on bears and wolves and moves  on to Romanian psychics, crazy fishing trips a couple of brothers in law take and much more. 

Glenda’s mission in writing these stories was first to get them out of her system with understanding  and insight into the people around her and herself and maybe to help people and herself, with that  insight. Some of the stories come close to the truth and she had permission to write them from the  people they were about. She felt those people needed validation for what they went through. 

Copies of her book (print and ebook) are available in Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Kobo,  Scribed, Thalia, Vivlio, Walmart Goodreads, Abebooks, Reduto, Best Deals and Libraries like  Overdrive, Borrowbox, Baker and Taylor, Bibliotheca. The info. Is available on her website.  

Author’s Bio 

Glenda Higgins started her writing experiences with poetry. Other than a few little poems pinned  earlier, she had a major poetry attack after taking a poetry writing course for a couple of hours. She  had seen an ad for it in a local newspaper while waiting for her music lesson and on a whim, went to  the course in the local art gallery. 

For a couple of weeks after she couldn’t sleep, being woken up by poems. At her day job in the  Government, the poems kept coming. Soon she had 200 written and being a musician, went to the  jazz venue, The Glass Slipper, to see Gerry Gilbert’s live taping radio show Radiofreerainforest where  he featured poets of Vancouver combined with some of the musicians the city has to offer. 

As fate would have it, he came down and asked if Glenda was a poet in the intermission and ended  up putting her on his show, reading her poetry for an hour, a couple of weeks later. 

Those poems ended up getting published after she returned to Ontario, years later, bringing her stories  with her.  

One book is The Legend of the Spirit Bear where she talks about something important to her, having mingled with the indigenous for many years. 

Because of a dream she had in her 20’s about a Little Potato, and because of her love of drawing  and painting, she put out a series of children’s picture books about this creature who became very  dear to her through her life.

The Toonies and Toques is a culmination of many adventures and she is presently writing a novel  about her experiences in a 36 day mountain climbing course in Canada’s Rockies, and the Rockies  of the States, called Falling Into Silence. 

She wants to thank Reader’s Magnet Author’s Lounge for their interest in her book.