Thanks so much to the Calgary writing community and readers for making Patterson House a bestseller two weeks in a row and for pushing it to the #1 spot this week.

I started Patterson House in Calgary. Both me and the book were nurtured by a whole bunch of writing classes and teachers. I took classes through Continuing Ed at the University. I went to a women’s writing week at U of A too which was excellent. Inge Trueman’s writing group and several writing retreats at Strawberry Creek (thanks Brenda, Tena and Rudy Weibe, and Astrid Blodgett and the Alberta Writers’ Guild) helped me too. And I had a really good week at Banff with Joan Clark as my mentor. There are many other Alberta-centric writing experiences too! I got to try sections out because Rona Altrows and others hosted ”Writing in the Works,” which allowed writers like me to read in public, and test the reception of work in progress. Such a gift!

Thank you Calgary!