I have two trailers for my life. In one I’m an engineer. In the other, I’m a writer. My first novel, written when I was a teenager, is still stored in a carton box – all 1,600 pages of it. I’m waiting for the urge to strike to go and re-draft it into five books. I write romance, mystery/suspense, fantasy, and thrillers that often become slipstream. I like strong characters challenged by hardships but my foremost requirement for any character I write is a sense of humor.

 

I graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in civil-geological engineering and spent years working in treacherous corporate environment. It was a perfect breeding ground for writing credible villains and shady motivations. I live with my three young-adults, two wheaten terriers and other pets I may not know about, in a suburb north of Toronto.

  published literary short story credits: “The Frame,” Fall issue 2001 of “The Amethyst Review”, Markasite Press, Truro, Nova Scotia“The Corporate Spin,” November 2002 issue, “The Sidewalk’s End”“Blind Luck,” August 2002 issue, “The Literary PotPourri”“Freedom 57″ MuseGuild Apprentice, October 2002 issue Learn more about E.A. Petrick at www.editapetrick.net. And read yesterday’s first chapter from Edita’s novel The Cracked Shadow here at From the Start.