About

Overview
My creative passions are comics / graphic novel scripts and short fiction. My professional experience includes journalism, copywriting, editing / proofreading, and criticism.

Biography
I was born in 1976 in North Bay, Ontario, Canada but didn’t spend much time there. The family packed up and moved shortly after I entered the world. My dad was in the Canadian Armed Forces which means there were many moves throughout my childhood, but unlike some Armed Forces “brats” the hopping from province to province didn’t make for a sad youth or scar me in any permanent way. In fact, I have fond memories of moving from location to location, settling in new homes and taking joy in unpacking the boxes stacked in my room and over the course of a couple days determining how best to arrange all my personal stuff that had made the journey with me.

In time, Dad retired and the family settled in Sydney, Nova Scotia. To be more specific, we set up permanent shop on Cape Breton Island and would spend my formative years of junior high, high school and university in the harbor city of Sydney. It was the experiences of these years that defined much of who I am today, and thus I proudly claim I am a Cape Bretoner, though now displaced.

Regina, Saskatchewan is where I’ve been since 1998, having moved here to attend and graduate from the Journalism program at the University of Regina. (For those of you following closely you will have noticed I claimed earlier that I spent my university days in Cape Breton, and I did, but only for my first degree.) Journalism led me to brief stints as a reporter for the Leader-Post, Regina’s daily newspaper, and CBC Saskatchewan television, Saskatchewan’s provincial suppertime news. In 2000, I applied for and received a writing job for mysask.com, Saskatchewan’s leading on-line portal. Though it has evolved greatly since my days, at the time I was writing lifestyle features.

Somehow that writing gig turned into a Web development and copywriting job for the company that ran mysask.com and over the course of the following six years that job evolved into a job as the manager of the graphic designers and programmers that build Web sites and online applications for the company’s clients. In 2009, that company folded its Web development division and I moved with its customers to a new company. I was there from April to October 2009, a short stay thanks to more restructuring. Losing two jobs in one year was an opportunity for me to spend more time with my two young sons, and focus more time on writing.