About Me

Hi, I’m Winter! I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with my husband, two sons (eleven and nine), and red-heeler cross.

I work as a technical writer at a software company, and I write romance novels! (as you might have gathered).

When I’m not working or writing or spending time with family, you can find me sleeping (really, pretty good odds), or doing housework — usually while listening to an audiobook.

(Also, I have a fondness for parentheses.)

These are a few of my favourite things:

Favourite romance books

  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • The Hating Game – Sally Thorne
  • Carry On – Rainbow Rowell
  • Riders, Rivals, Polo – Jilly Cooper
  • The Princess Bride – William Goldman

Favourite non-romance fiction

  • A Man of his Word (series) – Dave Duncan
  • Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
  • On the Beach – Nevil Shute
  • If I Never Get Back – Darryl Brock
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

Favourite non-fiction

  • Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
  • Into Thin Air – John Krakauer
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
  • Donut Economics – Kate Raworth
  • You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know – Heather Sellers
  • Playing the Enemy – John Carlin
  • The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer
  • A House in the Sky –  Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett
  • Intuitive Eating –  Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole

Favourite romance movies

  • Dirty Dancing
  • Pride and Prejudice (1995 & 2005)
  • Persuasion (1995)
  • God’s Own Country
  • The Wedding Planner
  • The DUFF
  • Leap Year
  • Say Anything
  • Clueless
  • Bridget Jones’ Diary
  • The Princess Bride

Favourite non-romance movies

  • About a Boy
  • Sunshine
  • The Matrix
  • Coco
  • Moana
  • Terminator
  • X-Men II
  • Star Wars (IV, V, VI)

Favourite tv shows

  • Parks and Recreation
  • Futurama
  • Seinfeld
  • Dragonball Z
  • Home Movies
  • Red Dwarf
  • Blackadder (2&3)
  • Key & Peele
  • Miraculous
  • Dexter
  • SNL

Favourite musicians

  • Spirit of the West
  • Sarah Harmer
  • Blue Rodeo
  • R.E.M.
  • Erasure
  • ABBA
  • Grimes
  • Liz Phair
  • Lorde
  • Ed Sheeran
  • Eminem

You can learn even about me from these posts.