Kim Kinrade
I was born and raised in Kimberley, British Columbia, on the B.C. side of the Canadian Rockies. At eighteen I went to Vancouver to study Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Then I took a sabbatical and went into music professionally, touring Canada in a band. Returning to Vancouver to finish his degree, I borrowed a pile of money and produced an album and two singles before graduating in 1979. Boy was I in debt!
Choosing to pursue a music career I followed the oil to Alberta where I played a lot of great clubs – and lot of not-so-great ones. I did, however recorded another album and then produced a music video which aired on the Jerry Lewis Telethon in 1990. There I met my wife, Heather, a Nova Scotian, in 1985 and six years later we moved to the east coast.
In the early 1990’s, I continued to perform professionally at night while looking after a young daughter and infant son during the day. It was during this time that I rekindled a past-time that had been put on hold while studying at U.B.C. – writing short stories. An Honourable Mention in the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia-sponsored writing contest spurred me on to write another short story focusing on my grandfather Charlie’s exploits in World War I. This short story ultimately formed the basis for my first novel, The Salient: A Novel of the Great War . This is an epic that traces a group of Canadian soldiers of the First World War from their initial army registration in Nelson, B.C. in 1914, to Ypres, Belgium, where they fight off waves of attacking Germany infantry during the world’s first gas attack.
Novels:
- The Salient: A Novel of the Great War (1994)
- Ice Break (1997), a National Bestseller featuring an icebreaker that gets hijacked by eco-terrorists.
- Beneath the Plains of Abraham (1998), a modern-day adventure about a rebellion which takes place in Quebec.
- The Millennium Man,(2000) an 84-year-old cop-murder mystery with Fugitive-like pace.
- Rockets of the Reich (2000) a U-boat thriller issued in hardcover by BainbridgeBooks, of Philadelphia.
- Road Food (2001) Sex, drugs, rock and roll and death form the backdrop for this mystery.
- The Polar Track (2006) A magnetic-levitation train link from Alaska to the “Lower 48″ is the object of a terrorist attack.
- Brian Jones’ Diary (2007) The legendary founder of The Rolling Stones, who died on 1969, is the key to turmoil in a shadowy world where souls do not move on.
Presently, I live in Dartmouth with my wife, Heather, A Canadian Coast Guard technician, my daughter Samantha, a Canadian Army reservist; my son, Tony, a Navy reservist and Grade 12 student; and twin sons, Brett and Shane, who are in Junior High School.
UntiI November 2008 I was the content manager for RenovationExperts/Leads.com websites. Currently I write articles for newspapers and magazines. In addition I supply the content for 3 blogs:
Dartmouth/Cole Harbour News Blog
