Local Authors & Poets: Brome Lake Books

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T. Lawrence Davis

T. Lawrence Davis grew up in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. He spent many summers as a teenager working as a groom at racetracks in Montreal, Toronto, Fort Erie and the U.S., as well as on his mother’s Thoroughbred horse farm in Bromont. After graduating from McGill University, T. (Terry) ran the family farm for several years before becoming a journalist. 

He is a past editor of Canadian Thoroughbred magazine, the Atlantic Salmon Journal and the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association. 

His work with horses and in the horseracing industry provided the fodder for his first published mystery thriller, The Pale Horse. The next novel in the series (working title Revelation of the Black Horse) is finished, and has been declared a winner by its initial readers.

When he’s not reading, writing, or at the horse races, Davis enjoys biking, walking, and travelling. He currently lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, with his wife Sandra. Both miss their late West Highland Terrier Pippin, who often slept by Davis's desk as he worked on The Pale Horse. They recently welcomed two new Westies, Geordie and Bonnie into their home.

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Lynette Enevoldsen

Lynette completed her schooling in Guernsey and followed it with studies in London and Bristol Universities, taking all opportunities to travel. Later she emigrated to Canada as a young teacher and established her own family in southern Quebec. She enjoys travel, painting and writing, and picking peas in the summer in her own flowery garden.

During Covid she joined in writing workshops with WHWN (Write Here Write Now) funded by the Townshippers and then through Bishops University. She was encouraged to develop her memoir of growing up in wartime. Her sister's collection of family documents and her mother's diary provided valuable details. 

She hopes that readers who know little about World War II may find her memoir interesting. In Split by War, a short introduction to the status of the war in 1940 is given, and an explanation of why the Channel Islands are British. She has drawn four maps to show details of the places where they lived in Guernsey and Lancashire, which adds interest to the reading. Family diagrams are added because this is also a story about large families and their loyalty. Tracking one's family during a war is tricky. 

As we move ahead into the next century, and war is again on the evening news, Lynette sees a need to understand what went on in the past; it helps us understand how our political attitudes have developed; and to know that we have strength to cope with the future.

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Davyd Gosselin

Davyd Gosselin is a pen name for David Mark Gosselin. He is a graduate of Concordia University's Creative Writing program and McGill University. He writes detective and regular fiction when he's not out playing tennis or walking Emma, a Border Collie.

He began reading Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew at seven, moved on to A. Conan Doyle by ten and continued in his teens with Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett and Agatha Christie. His favourite detective author is P.D. James.

He started his the first book in the Bevyn Jones series in 2000 (The Boathouse Murders) and self-published the book on Amazon in 2013. The second book in the series, Murder at Matins was published in fall 2018.

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Susan Grundy

Inspired by the “pura vida” while living in Costa Rica, Susan Grundy veered from her thirty-year career in marketing to write stories about the weight of emotional distress and how to step into an easier way of being. 

After her short fiction appeared in the Danforth Review and Montréal Writes, Susan dove into Mad Sisters, a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of thirteen. 

She recently completed a second novel (Black Creek, literary fiction) about an architect who breaks free from a painful ancestral cycle in her female lineage. 

When not at her desk, Susan can be found walking in nature towards a café. She divides her time between Montreal, the Eastern Townships and London UK. 

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Tanya Standish McIntyre

Born on an ancestral farm in rural Quebec, my greatest early influence was my grandfather, a Celtic-blooded storyteller who imparted his deep knowledge of the natural world with a sense of infinite wonder.

As a young person with strong interests in mysticism, philosophy, and mythology, I trained in fine arts, alongside the study of plants and herbs, working on organic farms while creating innovative gardens as artistic sanctuaries. 

For several years, I expanded upon a body of visual work across various mediums that I called Agrarian Ruins & Remnants of Desire, evolving to focus on the written word which developed into a narrative in the form of poetry called The House You Were Born In, which was shortlisted for Best First Book by Quebec Writer's Association. (McGill-Queens University Press, Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series 2022). I trained and worked briefly as a voice artist, was the "poetic brand voice" and creative copywriter for a spiritual lifestyle brand in Los Angeles, edited the book, Guru Jagat Wisdom Teachings for filmmaker and yogini, KamaNadine Schwartz, and numerous other creative projects, including songwriting and an autobiographical novel. 

Encountering the teachings and initiatives of the philosopher/mystic Rudolf Steiner through my son's Waldorf education, I began a 3-year training in the field known as Biography Work, which brought a new dimension as a facilitator of groups and one on one experiences - "awakening to the golden thread of meaning in our life's story" by kindling insight and memory via the arts, the cycles of nature, and the history of ideas.

All these chapters came together in brand visioning, and with a commitment to the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, I now work in a variety of ways, with words, pictures, and place to tell the stories that will carry humanity forward.