About the Author

Gail Hamilton

Photo credit: Paula Martin

In case you are wondering, I’m a writer living in Prince Edward County, a rural corner of Ontario covered with red cedars, limestone shale, tenacious farmers, new wineries and summer visitors seeking farm cuisine and actual green pastures with cows in them.

My book count is pretty big, including many romances for Harlequin, TV adaptations and some heavy-duty reference books. After those, I took to historical fiction with The Tomorrow Country.

The Tomorrow Country finds lots of trouble in old London’s dockside slums.

When my agent suggested a heroine who was once a British home child (charity orphan), she probably had a bodice ripper in mind. I, however, got totally sucked into the epic 19th century child emigration movement in which Britain hit upon the idea of scooping up its unwanted pauper children and shipping them to the colonies.  The Tomorrow Country, set in 1870’s London, deals with a cast of desperate children and the equally desperate characters trying to rescue them when they aren’t trying to bamboozle each other. I could put in all the adventure, pathos, humour, romance, danger, skullduggery and crazy eccentrics I wanted.

The Accidental Bootlegger hops an ocean.

Since The Tomorrow Country ends at the Liverpool Dock, it begged a sequel. Hence The Accidental Bootlegger which follows our characters as they come of age on a crumbling backwoods Canadian farm and an excitable village with no shortage of scandal. Add an angry pig, a circus sharpshooter, a sinking schooner, romance gone awry and there’s lots of action there!

I also Blog

The gurus say I need to blog for marketing purposes but it only takes fifteen minutes before I veer off the marketing trail into the much more intriguing woods.  So I’m just going to blog for fun.  Tree friends, vampires, shipwrecks, turtle rescue, wild turkeys, the county fair, lottery thoughts, Victorian petty crime and weird history are all part of the mix inside my head. All of this aided by my recent fascination with surreal photography.

I hope you’ll visit when you need a little break and become a friend too.