The long list of B.C. authors who have worked in bookstores includes mystery writer Laurence Gough, who worked at Duthies, as did Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt. On the other side of the Strait, Robert Wiersema works at Bolen's, and Sheila Munro worked at Munro's Books, as did Valerie Stetson who received the Bronwen Wallace Award for the first story she ever completed, "The Year I Got Impatient"; in 2001. Stetson's debut story has become the title piece for her first fiction collection, The Year I Got Impatient (Oolichan $18.95). Stetson lived in Victoria for thirteen years prior to moving to Kelowna in 1999. Having written humour and television columns for the Times Colonist, she's now turning her story entitled "Graham Getty's Last Swim"; into a novel. 0-88982-238-7

[BCBW 2007]