Member Review
Canadian writers take so much for granted. Canada Council programs. Festivals and readings. Cheques arriving from the Public Lending Right Commission and Access Copyright. The Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards. Apparently, some of us believe that these things sprang unbidden from a naturally generous culture, and will always be with us. But they exist thanks mainly to the sustained creative efforts and constant vigilance of The Writers’ Union of Canada. We owe. We owe those who have gone before us, and we owe those who will come after.
Member Profile
Marion Crook
Marion Crook wrote short stories for Canadian Broadcasting Company and a short story for Crime Writers of Canada while working as a public health nurse in the Cariboo country of British Columbia. She became engrossed with ranch life, three children and writing, and retired from nursing to write full time. This concentrated effort on writing resulted in a series of four young adult mysteries and three children’s mystery-adventure novels published by Grolier Lid./Stoddart/General Publishing. As well, James Lorimer Ltd. published her two sports stories for the young adult market. Alternately with fiction, she wrote non-fiction and researched with teens and wrote books on suicide prevention, eating disorders and adoption which were published by New NC Press, Self-Counsel Press, and Arsenal Pulp Press. After more than twenty published books, she put together what she learned about writing and produced “Writing for Children and Young Adults for Self-Counsel Press.
She received her PhD in education and taught at university for eleven years, writing one teen novel during this time. She retired from teaching, returned to writing and enthusiastically moved to the adult readership, completing an adult mystery Dr. MacNab’s View of Murder Her latest non-fiction(2016)Thicker Than Blood: Adoptive Parenting in the Modern (Arsenal Pulp Press). The next publication is the third edition of Writing for Children and Young Adults (September 2016) with Self-Counsel Press.
More details on the website: crookpublishing.com
She continues to enjoy teaching and working with new writers.
