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Margo Bates
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- Vancouver area, British Columbia
- Canada
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- Something About Me and My Book:
- I use humour to bring historical fiction to life, teach writing and media relations workshops, do public speaking, publicity and photography. The author of P.S. Don't Tell Your Mother, I am currently writing The Funeral Follower. I'm the President of Canadian Authors Association — Vancouver, its Program & Publicity Committee Chair, the CAA National MarComm (marketing & communications) Committee Chair, and am an alumna of Erma Bombeck Humor Writers Workshop, University of Dayton, Ohio. And, I'm a darn good cook.
My first book, P.S. Don’t Tell Your Mother, is a slice of Canadiana. It offers a unique look into the culture of Northern British Columbia, Canada. According to a number of reviews, I’ve captured the idioms, slang and expressions — the very nature of northern life — because I lived it.
Definitely got an early start to my writing career. When I was ten-years-old, my pioneer grandmother began a correspondence with me that lasted for over thirty years.
The result is P.S. Don’t Tell Your Mother: part fact, part fiction. Readers soon become immersed in the comical, quirky, and irreverent story that chronicles the life of twelve-year-old Maggie Mulvaney and her grandmother Nana Noonan, somewhat of a local legend in the town of Telkwa, British Columbia, Pop. 852.
The distinctive voices of Maggie and Nana and their supporting cast of characters entertain readers with a new look at an old topic: prejudice.
Telkwa in the late 50’s and early 60’s is not much different from other small towns or tight-knit neighborhoods across North America. There is always one larger than life character or curmudgeon who supplies the townsfolk with fresh stories. In Telkwa, it is Nana Noonan.
A lot of things get her going. Telkwa’s only Jehovah’s Witness tops her list.
‘That Darn Jehovah!’ is the incessant phrase in the hundreds of letters Nana sends Maggie. They live 150 miles apart, and Nana and her letters show Maggie the human aspects of life.
The Jehovah is hell-bent on saving Nana. His high hopes on salvation equal her intent to remain as she is: hell-bent on being herself. After all, she is an Anglican.
Nana tells Maggie that it is important to be fair to your fellow humans. As long as they don’t drive you to do something foolish. Maggie thinks about the lessons learned at Nana’s knee. She writes back and offers suggestions on how Nana might better deal with the Jehovah.
The townsfolk place bets on Nana and the Jehovah and when they will have their next ‘set to.’ Cash exchanges hands on a fairly regular basis.
Only two people visit Nana more often than her family: Constable Reems of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and her ill-fated devotee, who visits every Saturday, rain, shine, sleet or snow.
Nana and the Jehovah reach a stalemate one autumn day in 1960. Her Irish temper and accuracy with a gun is what gets Nana into trouble.
And Telkwa isn’t the same without Nana Noonan … or that Darn Jehovah.
P.S. Don't Tell Your Mother is available in paperback, e-book and audio book (narrated by me). Queen of a Gated Community is in the edit stages, and I'm writing The Funeral Follower. I wrote a cookbook in the early 1990s, and a revised edition is in the works.
Follow me on Twitter.com @margobates, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/margo.bates.752
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- http://www.margobates.com
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