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; Peggy Hallett is a Canadian author, playwright, ghostwriter and memoir writer and educational consultant for hire. She is also an artist, mostly with watercolour and acrylics. She has a background in elementary teaching and spent over twenty years as a teacher and principal. Peggy ran her own private school in Kingston, Ontario and uses the suburbs of this small city as the setting for “Daisy Chains”, her children's chapter book, "Orchids & Orangutans - Book 1 in The Stickered Suitcase" and her memoir/cookbook "No More KD" . She also released a fictitious novel based on her true adventures building a house in the country: "Sex and the Country". Her most recent release is "The Last Olive Branch" which tells the struggles of a spirited young woman in rural post war Italy. All her books are available on Amazon.
Peggy's newest release is a play! She has been involved in over twenty musical theatre productions, both on stage and behind. She conceived the idea for the play while waiting patiently in the dressing room and realizing that all around her were plenty of stories and drama that created a play itself.
Peggy has previously written articles and stories that have been published in "Our Canada" magazine, the local newspaper, The Kingston Whig-Standard and she has contributed to the U of T Alumni Magazine. Since 2010, her life took a change of venue that led to a house on a lake, and after most renovations were complete, more time for writing. She works with clients all over the world in developing their educational materials, ESL lessons, memoirs, ghostwriting projects, website content and copywriting.
"From an early age I started writing. I was in high school when a teacher, who liked my descriptions and dialogue style, encouraged me to keep at it. But I had so many other interests: teaching, drama, art, cooking, and travel. Sitting at a typewriter or with a notebook was something I relegated to short term projects like short stories, song lyrics and plays for my students."
All my books are available at amazon.com and amazon.ca
What am I working on?
Volume 2 in the “The Stickered Suitcase Series” takes place in Brazil. It’s called “Carnaval and Crocodiles”.
And another play!
Favourite Books of All Time The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett The Blessing Stone – Barbara Wood The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck A Town Called Alice – Neville Shute The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini Redbird Christmas – Fannie Flagg Room – Emma Donoghue Whitethorn – Bryce Courtenay The River God – Wilbur Smith The Glass House – Jeanette Walls Life of Pi – Martel The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan ...anything by Barbara Wood!!
What am I reading now? "No Relation" by Terry Fallis What have I enjoyed recently? The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah "Exceptional!!!" Trash - a memoir by Kingstonian Laurie Ann Hoover of her childhood Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen - Sarah Bird True account of the only black woman to service as a Buffalo soldier after the US Civil War.