Winter Can Be Wonderful...or Deadly

by Madelle Morgan
On a sunny Saturday in mid-January, I walked along a trail by a frozen lake and thought about what I'd say in this post on the topic of writing a novel with a winter setting.

I was visiting my mother who lives by Lake Simcoe, located between Toronto and Muskoka, Ontario. The lake was dotted with dozens of ice fishing huts and people enjoying the unseasonable above-freezing