IN PERSON, REGISTERED
Join us for an evening with Carolyn Huizinga Mills, local fiction writer and teacher as she discusses her second adult fiction novel Sins of the Daughter.
About Carolyn Huizinga Mills:
Ever since reading L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon as a child, Carolyn Huizinga Mills has dreamed of being an author. She didn’t start writing seriously, though, until she had done practical things like finishing university and finding a job. She began with short stories, then progressed to picture books and novels.
She describes her first two novels, The Good Son (Cormorant Books, 2021) and Sins of the Daughter (Cormorant Books, 2022), as character-driven family dramas with a hint of mystery. Driven by an underlying interest in human behaviour and motivation, in these first two novels she was drawn to explore the complex relationships between siblings, as well as between mothers and daughters.
Carolyn has also written two picture books, The Little Boy Who Lived Down the Drain (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2017) and Grandpa’s Stars (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), which is set to be released in March 2023.
Carolyn currently works as a grade 7 teacher, where she is able to share her passion for reading and writing with her students. She was born in Calgary, Alberta, and moved at the age of twelve to southwestern Ontario, where she still lives with her husband and two children. Before settling down, she worked overseas in Scotland and Australia, two places she would gladly call home, and which have both found their way into her most recent novel.
Interviewing Carolyn will be Kayleigh Platz. Kayleigh is a lifetime writer and avid reader who is passionate about library advocacy. She spends her days writing about people far smarter than herself for the Institute for Quantum Computing. At night, she tells stories to her cat. Hopefully one day other people will read those stories as well. Kayleigh is co-creator of Romance by the Book, a virtual book club and blog for lovers of happy endings.
This program is presented in partnership with Words Worth Books.
Programmer: Nancy
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