This website shares my writing projects explaining the background around each as well as some excerpts from the novels, short stories, and poetry.   I have a master’s degree in education and have had a long and successful career in post-secondary education, both as an English teacher and Communication expert.  My focus is fiction, and I like to get into the heads of my characters as opposed to describing them from afar.  As Ernest Buckler states, “I think people’s insides are so much more important and intriguing than their outsides.  I think the most important constituents of life itself are ‘phrases’ of illumination, not the chattering verbs.”

I have written five novels including two anthologies of short stories and poems with a sixth novel on the go and hope to have them published soon.  The two anthologies, Island Passages, The maple Hill and Other Journeys, and ‘Take a Hard Left at Pluto‘ are currently available at Amazon.com with another anthology of short stories, ‘Bits and Bytes’, in process.

My home is on St. Joseph Island in the St. Mary’s Channel between Lakes Superior and Huron on an old farm settled by my ancestors who came here during the Potato Famine in Ireland in the mid-19^th century.  I am intimately swayed both by the history of the place as well as the resplendent beauty of the rural landscape.

I admire Kurt Vonnegut’s style of telling a story within a story, and his influence is evident here.  He has a genius for removing himself from the narrative to which he is intimately involved and relating the events from an unique perspective as if he were a stranger. 

I have always had a penchant for poetry that is accessible, that says what it wants to say on the surface while suggesting a much deeper meaning, one worth pondering, like throwing a stone into a pond and watching the ripples expanding.

It is my wish that you enjoy this site, and that I make connections so that we can help promote each other’s work.

• I can be reached at: mseymour40@seymourwriting.ca

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