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Heather McLeod
Heather lives with her family on an old homestead on the edge of town. Writing is her third career. She studied music in University and paid for her education working as a busker and jazz singer. Upon graduation she launched her first career as a singer/songwriter. It kept her on the road for up to two hundred days a year and saw the release of six albums.
In 2002 she left Montreal (where she had lived for a dozen years) and moved to Thunder Bay. CBC Radio had offered her a position co-hosting a daily current affairs program and she decided that was a great reason to make journalism her second career. She won the RTNDA Dave Rogers award twice while at CBC Thunder Bay.
In 2008 she decided to pursue writing as a career. Kiss Me! (I’m a Prince!) was the first manuscript she submitted to a publisher - and it was accepted! Then by vote of hundreds of thousands of Ontario kids it was named a 2012 Blue Spruce honour book. That makes Heather so happy she gets giddy.