Kitchissippi Reads: What does a mystery writer like to read on a summer evening?

Kitchissippi Reads: What does a mystery writer like to read on a summer evening?

Kitchissippi: 7.20.2017 by Judith van Berkom

Local mystery writer, Brenda Chapman, retired last year from the government as a senior communications advisor to commit more time to her writing. Before that, she worked as a Special Ed teacher.

Currently, as a writer, she is working on two different contracts – an adult literacy series with Grass Roots Press out of Edmonton and the Stonechild and Rouleau mystery novel series published by Dundurn Press. The first book in the series, Cold Mourning, was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel, 2015.

Grassroots Press gave Brenda 35 different topics to write on for adult comprehension but written at a Grade 3 or 4 level. She finds the work fun, interesting and rewarding and is hopeful that she can continue working with them.

She is the mother of two active daughters who started out many years ago to curl at the Granite Curling Club on Scott Street in Westboro and whose curling team won the World Championship in China last year. Brenda has travelled across Canada over the years, often with the curling club to places like Moosejaw and Winnipeg, giving talks to adult literacy teachers. Many new Canadians are using her books. They are also used in prisons in California, the New York school system and aboriginal communities.  READ MORE @