WorldTeach Twitter Feed Day 1
Hi! Well, here it is, Day 1 of 7 of the WorldTeach Twitter Feed Blog (don’t repeat that too many times in quick succession). It’s been a while since I lived in Ecuador. I returned in 1999, although I contemplated staying longer. Since then I’ve been working as a mechanical engineer (I graduated from the University of Toronto in 1995), I married a wonderful woman, had two amazing children, and I’ve been writing. I’m President of the Canadian Authors Association Toronto Branch which will likely end this year, and I have my second novel Poor Man’s Galapagos coming out this fall with Blue Denim Press. Both of my novels are set in Ecuador. My first novel was Abundance of the Infinite (Quattro Books, 2012). It’s about a psychologist, specializing in dreams, who travels to a small coastal fishing town in Ecuador. It’s the place where his unknown father once resided, and he comes to understand who he was through those who knew him. It’s a story about the redemptive power of dreams.
Poor Man’s Galapagos, which is scheduled to be launched November 21, 2015 in Toronto, is a story about an irrigation engineering student living on a small, impoverished island in Ecuador, South America. Tomas, the main character, is conscripted into military service in a border war where he is certain he will die a senseless death. His father, a renowned British travel writer, is accused of embezzling government funds and quickly leaves the island. Tomas searches for answers amidst the backdrop of a fight for conscientious objection; the construction of a luxury hotel designed to attract tourists and infrastructure; a priest promoting the philosophy that it is against the precepts of religion to focus on spiritual needs while ignoring the worldly ones; and a nurse who longs for escape from serving as a doctor in a remote rural community. Tomas embarks on a journey of discovery that may lead him closer to his father, his biological mother who abandoned him at birth, and away from his home country for the first time in his life. The novel explores the enduring themes of duty, honour, obligation, sacrifice, and how the struggle to improve the condition of our lives sometimes comes with an inestimable expense...
This week I’ll have control over the WorldTeach twitter feed and I will be tweeting and blogging to discuss various aspects of writing, and stories about my experiences living and working in Ecuador for WorldTeach - stories which inspired these novels... Stay tuned!!!
Hi! Well, here it is, Day 1 of 7 of the WorldTeach Twitter Feed Blog (don’t repeat that too many times in quick succession). It’s been a while since I lived in Ecuador. I returned in 1999, although I contemplated staying longer. Since then I’ve been working as a mechanical engineer (I graduated from the University of Toronto in 1995), I married a wonderful woman, had two amazing children, and I’ve been writing. I’m President of the Canadian Authors Association Toronto Branch which will likely end this year, and I have my second novel Poor Man’s Galapagos coming out this fall with Blue Denim Press. Both of my novels are set in Ecuador. My first novel was Abundance of the Infinite (Quattro Books, 2012). It’s about a psychologist, specializing in dreams, who travels to a small coastal fishing town in Ecuador. It’s the place where his unknown father once resided, and he comes to understand who he was through those who knew him. It’s a story about the redemptive power of dreams.
Poor Man’s Galapagos, which is scheduled to be launched November 21, 2015 in Toronto, is a story about an irrigation engineering student living on a small, impoverished island in Ecuador, South America. Tomas, the main character, is conscripted into military service in a border war where he is certain he will die a senseless death. His father, a renowned British travel writer, is accused of embezzling government funds and quickly leaves the island. Tomas searches for answers amidst the backdrop of a fight for conscientious objection; the construction of a luxury hotel designed to attract tourists and infrastructure; a priest promoting the philosophy that it is against the precepts of religion to focus on spiritual needs while ignoring the worldly ones; and a nurse who longs for escape from serving as a doctor in a remote rural community. Tomas embarks on a journey of discovery that may lead him closer to his father, his biological mother who abandoned him at birth, and away from his home country for the first time in his life. The novel explores the enduring themes of duty, honour, obligation, sacrifice, and how the struggle to improve the condition of our lives sometimes comes with an inestimable expense...
This week I’ll have control over the WorldTeach twitter feed and I will be tweeting and blogging to discuss various aspects of writing, and stories about my experiences living and working in Ecuador for WorldTeach - stories which inspired these novels... Stay tuned!!!
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