Hello,
Janet Kellough got me interested in this Blog-Hop and I'm glad she did. Janet can be found at https://www.facebook.com/janet.kellough.
I would like to introduce Jessica Simon a Yukon writer who has lived in the Yukon since 1986 and is the author of From Ice to Ashes, a Yukon thriller, and writes primarily fiction. She dabbles in other genres through short stories, some of which have appeared in UpHere Magazine and Canadian Tales of the Heart 2013.
Jessica will be answering the four questions next week.
Jessica's address is https://www.facebook.com/jessica.simon.543
Here are four questions the writers are being asked to answer,
1. What am I working on?
I'm writing a short story that rewrites the history of a 2590 pound copper nugget on display at the McBride Museum in down town Whitehorse.
In the past I have reinvented the history of the DC-3 weather vane at the Whitehorse airport, the statue dedicated to prospectors on Main Street and the skeleton of a mammoth at the Beringia Center Museum.
The nugget is copper but at one time it was solid gold and the property of an Italian immigrant named Vincent Rizzo who was mining on Quartz Creek near Dawson City in 1933. How the nugget turned to copper is the story.
2. How does my work differ from others of its genre?
My writing combines life in the Yukon with historical facts. For example I had the DC-3 weather vane become a link to the assassination of President Kennedy. The crashed plane was found untouched by a hiker in a remote area and it contained evidence of a conspiracy. I have also used the mammoth in the Beringia Center in a story called Frozen in Time from my first book called Talking at the Woodpile.
3. Why do I write what I do?
I write about the Yukon and its people because I want southern Canadians to have a better understanding of life in the north. Also it is a great deal of fun and I have been encouraged along the way.
4. How does my writing process work?
I write everything that comes into my head then I go back and work it over and over until I'm satisfied then I send it to my editor and it goes back and forth a couple of times from there.
If I find I'm not moving ahead i abandon whatever idea I had and move on. I try to listen to my heart and not force anything.
Best regards
David
Janet Kellough got me interested in this Blog-Hop and I'm glad she did. Janet can be found at https://www.facebook.com/janet.kellough.
I would like to introduce Jessica Simon a Yukon writer who has lived in the Yukon since 1986 and is the author of From Ice to Ashes, a Yukon thriller, and writes primarily fiction. She dabbles in other genres through short stories, some of which have appeared in UpHere Magazine and Canadian Tales of the Heart 2013.
Jessica will be answering the four questions next week.
Jessica's address is https://www.facebook.com/jessica.simon.543
Here are four questions the writers are being asked to answer,
1. What am I working on?
I'm writing a short story that rewrites the history of a 2590 pound copper nugget on display at the McBride Museum in down town Whitehorse.
In the past I have reinvented the history of the DC-3 weather vane at the Whitehorse airport, the statue dedicated to prospectors on Main Street and the skeleton of a mammoth at the Beringia Center Museum.
The nugget is copper but at one time it was solid gold and the property of an Italian immigrant named Vincent Rizzo who was mining on Quartz Creek near Dawson City in 1933. How the nugget turned to copper is the story.
2. How does my work differ from others of its genre?
My writing combines life in the Yukon with historical facts. For example I had the DC-3 weather vane become a link to the assassination of President Kennedy. The crashed plane was found untouched by a hiker in a remote area and it contained evidence of a conspiracy. I have also used the mammoth in the Beringia Center in a story called Frozen in Time from my first book called Talking at the Woodpile.
3. Why do I write what I do?
I write about the Yukon and its people because I want southern Canadians to have a better understanding of life in the north. Also it is a great deal of fun and I have been encouraged along the way.
4. How does my writing process work?
I write everything that comes into my head then I go back and work it over and over until I'm satisfied then I send it to my editor and it goes back and forth a couple of times from there.
If I find I'm not moving ahead i abandon whatever idea I had and move on. I try to listen to my heart and not force anything.
Best regards
David