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Frances Peck
Frances Peck

Frances Peck wrote fiction and poetry until her early twenties, when the realities of adulthood and rent steered her toward a career as a ghostwriter, editor and instructor.
As a professional wordsmith, Frances worked with an array of clients and authors to make their material as polished and reader-friendly as possible. She also wrote about the finer points of language, authoring two editions of Peck">https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/pecks-english-pointers/inde...’s English Pointers and co-authoring the popular HyperGrammar">https://arts.uottawa.ca/writingcentre/en/hypergrammar">HyperGrammar website. Along the way she wrote occasional essays and blog posts, and taught scores of workshops and courses for associations of editors, writers and translators, as well as for the University of Ottawa, Douglas College, Simon Fraser University and UBC.
Frances returned to her first love, fiction, with her debut novel, The">https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/the-broken-places?variant=4228... Broken Places (NeWest Press, April 2022). This “intense and absorbing drama” (Vancouver">https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/review-the-broken-places-su... Sun) explores how a major earthquake shakes up the lives and relationships of a group of interrelated characters.