Featured Author Colleen Friesen Colleen has been a voracious reader all her life, but for some reason it never occurred as a young woman that someone like her could actually become a writer. Countless Trixie Belden, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew sets went by … and then she read the Diary of Anne Frank. She immediately started her own Dear Diary. In the last decade, Colleen's diary writing has morphed into a three-page-a-day habit. A habit almost as necessary as coffee. Not quite - but close. Eighteen years in British Columbia's forest industry prepared her for this new world of working with editors. According to Colleen, editorial rejection is a walk in the park compared to being the only female log broker in the hurly burly resource-based world. Colleen and her husband retired in 1996. She was 36 and he was 39. They planned, invested and then downsized, deciding that making more time was more important than making more money. Those first years they did lots of travelling and, as always, Colleen was keeping a journal. So really, becoming a writer was inevitable for her. You can read about one of Colleen's trips in the pages of I Learned Kung Fu from a Bear Cub, where she describes the complicated process of beautification and learning how to become chic while visiting Paris, France. < Back to Writer Spotlight Main Page
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