_{JEN TAPLIN Published December 1, 2017 - 3:07pm, The Chronical Herald}

An image from John Boileau's book 6/12/17. (CONTRIBUTED)

There are no black and white photos of a destroyed Halifax on the cover of the book, 6/12/17. It's just a black void with billowing grey smoke.

Author John Boileau, an army veteran, wanted to do something completely different for his first foray into the Halifax Explosion genre. His book is bursting with colour, photos, documents, images, stories, sidebars, facts and quotes. The author, who has written a dozen books of historical non-fiction, had touched on the Explosion before but never explored it, until now.

He says there's always a new story to tell in an event as massive as the Halifax Explosion. 

Just in time for Halloween "authors from across Nova Scotia who have a background in writing about the paranormal, ghost stories and the supernatural" come together in Where Evil Dwells: The Nova Scotia Anthology of Horrors. Edited by Vernon Oickle

Click here to read the article in the Queens County Citizen

"This cookbook is full of stories — and they're real people who contributed to this book and they all had fascinating stories to tell." Christine Hanlon on her bestselling book Out of Old Manitoba Kitchens.

Click here to read more in the Winnipeg Free Press

Mary Harelkin Bishop talks with the Moose Jaw Times Herald about the "colourful and wonderful history" of the city in her new book, Moose Jaw: A History in Words and Pictures.

Click here to read the article in the Moose Jaw Times Herald