Emma Dakin

Marion Crook wrote short stories for Canadian Broadcasting Company and a short story for Crime Writers of Canada while working as a public health nurse in the Cariboo country of British Columbia. She became engrossed with ranch life, three children and writing. This concentrated effort on writing resulted in a series of four young adult mysteries and three children’s mystery-adventure novels published by Grolier Lid./Stoddart/General Publishing. As well, James Lorimer Ltd. published her two sports stories for the young adult market. Alternately with fiction, she wrote non-fiction and researched with teens and wrote books on suicide prevention, eating disorders and adoption which were published by New NC Press, Self-Counsel Press, and Arsenal Pulp Press. After more than twenty published books, she put together what she learned about writing and produced “Writing for Children and Young Adults for Self-Counsel Press.