Tumblehome

TUMBLEHOME CONTINUES TO TUMBLE INTO THE WORLD! Join me and dozens of other authors Saturday, June 20, at the Bookapalooza book lovers festival in Minden, Ontario, where I will be offering copies of Tumblehome and Tell Anna She’s Safe for purchase at a shared table with Dementia Widow author Fay Martin.   WHERE TO …

About Brenda Missen

Brenda Missen is the author of the literary thriller Tell Anna She’s Safe and the memoir Tumblehome: One Woman’s Canoeing Adventures in the Divine Near Wilderness, as well as a memoir in the finishing stages, Blue Threads Loosened: The Untangling of a Sisters Story. Knowing she wanted to be a writer from age ten, …

Tell Anna She’s Safe

Based on a true story, Tell Anna She’s Safe tells the tale of two women, one missing, the other searching for her. Driving alongside West Quebec’s Gatineau River near her home one April afternoon, researcher Ellen McGinn spots a parked car that looks like it might belong to her friend and colleague, Lucy Stockman. …

Luciana Ricciutelli: In Tribute

It was with great shock and sadness that I learned, in December 2020, of the sudden death of my beloved publisher and friend, Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief at Inanna Publications. In addition to being a good friend, Lu was a keen champion of my writing, as she was to so many others. She took a …

Beyond Blame

Late in the evening of September 3rd, 2014, my niece Harriet received a phone call no one expects or wants ever to receive: a sergeant from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was delivering the news that her mother, my sister Kathryn (Kate to many), had been found deceased in her home in Casselman, Ontario. …

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