I was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and raised in the Ottawa Valley town of Arnprior. I've lived in Ottawa since 1970.
I began my writing career as an advertising copywriter in private radio. I went on to work as a researcher, story editor and interviewer for CBC Public Affairs television, a general-assignment reporter and music reviewer for the Ottawa Citizen , a syndicated country-music columnist, a part-time stand-up comic with Yuk Yuk's, and a speech writer for a number of departments in the federal government.
During those years, I wrote fiction when time permitted. In the spring of 2001, I began devoting full-time to writing a novel. The result is McNab , which was published by General Store Publishing House in October 2006. DUEL, my second novel of dramatized history, was published in October 2009. Chaduière Falls, my third novel, was published in December 2016. I'm currently working on the next one.