MacLeod Hilary

Hilary MacLeod   Hilary MacLeod has written for a living all her working life, but it has taken that long to finally write a novel. She’s worked as a CBC writer-broadcaster, a radio reporter and news director for CHUM Quebec and a freelance writer. She’s published in, among others, Equinox, Reader’s Digest and Canadian Author and Bookman.

Through her radio work, Hilary had the chance to interview top Canadian authors like Margaret Atwood, W.O. Mitchell, Farley Mowat and Timothy Findley – and always asked them for their writing tips.        

She co-wrote a non-fiction humour book, Tools of Their Trade, the Book of Professional Fiascos (Eden Press 1986), but the novel eluded her until she took a sabbatical from her job as a professor of Media Studies in 2007. She drew upon the experience of twenty summers spent in the tiny village of Sea View, PEI, to write Revenge of the Lobster Lover, a maritime mystery and tragicomedy of love, loss and the lobster’s right to life. 

The next novel in the same series, Mind Over Murder, is in final draft and the third book, Goodwill to Murder, is in its first draft.

Bibliography: 

• Revenge of the Lobster Lover, The Acorn Press 2010
• Tools of Their Trade: The Book of Professional Fiascos, Eden Press 1986