n 2011, Grant McKenzie signed a two-book deal in the U.S. with Midnight Ink to introduce mystery lovers to a sassy heroine named Dixie Dash. "As a rule-breaking reporter for alternative weekly San Francisco NOW, Dixie will do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of the stories she feels most passionate about." As the series is written in first-person from Dixie's point of view, McKenzie is adopting the pseudonym K.C. Grant. When he wrote the book, Grant McKenzie was living in Victoria and doubling as Editor-in-Chief of Monday magazine (at the time a weekly; becoming an arts calendar monthly in July 2013.)

Scottish-born Grant McKenzie, while living in Gibsons, published a debut thriller, Switch (Penguin $25), a mass-market paperback that has been translated into German, Russian and Chinese.

[BCBW 2011]