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Peter Kingsmill

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Born
Montreal, Canada
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Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

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Corban Addison, Lee Childs, David Butler

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January 2018


Peter Kingsmill is the author of the Awan Lake mystery series. Peter is a recipient of the Governor General’s Conservation Award (Canada) and the founder of the Redberry Lake (UNESCO) Biosphere Reserve in Saskatchewan. When he is not writing novels, he serves as a contract writer and as a consultant on regional development projects. Peter joined Crime Writers of Canada as a Professional Author Member in 2018.
Peter has been a frequent writer and editor since leaving high-school in Montreal and college in Vermont. He recently retired from many years as a riverboat captain and owner of a small-waters marine services business, and has worked at an eclectic mix of tasks which include logger, trucker and cattle farmer. He is passionate about Cana ...more

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Peter Kingsmill I am currently doing some polishing on "Nobody Drowned", which is in pre-order status at Kobo, Amazon and Kindle. Release date is April 1... I am cont…moreI am currently doing some polishing on "Nobody Drowned", which is in pre-order status at Kobo, Amazon and Kindle. Release date is April 1... I am contemplating moving that forward to March 20 but I'm not certain yet.
And of course, I am scheming about the third book in the Awan Lake Series of Frank Anderson novels... (less)
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Peter Kingsmill Now that I have started to concentrate on writing novels, the day-by-day inspiration to sit down at the keyboard and "just do it" comes easily. But, t…moreNow that I have started to concentrate on writing novels, the day-by-day inspiration to sit down at the keyboard and "just do it" comes easily. But, there has been a long road between my parents and teachers and even a professor telling me "you should be a writer" and actually becoming a fiction writer. My first job offer after high school was to write operation and maintenance manuals for railway locomotives, a job I probably shouldn't have turned down - but did! A second offer was from a small community weekly newspaper, which I did accept and shortly became editor (all eight pages of it, twelve on a good week!)
After a year or so of that, a year of college got in the way. It was almost two decades later that I spent a few years as a full-time singer/songwriter, and became convinced that writing country songs was a perfect fit for my attention span: two verses, one chorus, repeat... and done!
Later, I took on some good editing gigs for business and professional magazines and even (with a lot of encouragement and help from my spouse) started a relatively successful community weekly newspaper of our own.
Of course I have been doing a number of things over the years to earn a living, including farm worker, logger, trucker and riverboat captain, but it took until just over a year ago to arrive at the conclusion that I actually wanted to do what I probably should have done many many years before: write my first novel. And, here it is: Sunset at 20:47 !(less)
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