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Sample local authors for last minute gifts

KELOWNA – Books make a great last minute gift and the latest from a local author is the perfect touch.

Here’s the latest from some local talent.

All True Not A Lie In It
This novel by Okanagan College professor Alix Hawley made the Giller long list and won amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2015.

All-day Breakfast
Adam Lewis Schroeder is a lecturer with the faculty of creative and critical studies at UBC Okanagan.

Mertz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
Jake Kennedy's latest book of poetry follows his Apollinaire Speech To The War Medic. He teaches at Okanagan College.

My Body Is Yours
This is a memoir by Michael V. Smith, an assistant professor of creative writing at UBC Okanagan.

Queen of the God Forsaken 
Mix Hart wrote her first young adult novel while living in Kelowna with her husband and three children.

A Nate to Remember: A poppy cove mystery
Barbara Jean Coast
Andrea Taylor and Heather Shkuratoff write mystery novels under the pen name Barbara Jean Coast.

Let us know if we’ve missed any new books in the comments section below.

To contact a reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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John McDonald

John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca

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