by Jackie Elliott | Aug 7, 2021 | Coffin Cove, mystery, Vancouver Island, West Coast
My Coffin Cove mystery series is set in an isolated fishing town of the same name. The town is an independent municipality with it’s own Mayor and City Council, RCMP detachment, pub, café and Government dock. Years ago Coffin Cove was a boom town. First coal...
by Jackie Elliott | May 29, 2021 | Coffin Cove, Vancouver Island, West Coast
“You ever walked much in the bush?” Clara asked her. Her voice was gravelly, as if she were a heavy smoker, and she was abrupt. “No. Just that trail. From our house to the beach. Dad always told us there were abandoned mineshafts and it was too dangerous.” “He was...
by Jackie Elliott | Apr 28, 2021 | Coffin Cove, Storytelling, Vancouver Island, West Coast
Port Renfrew is a tiny remote community on the West side of Vancouver Island. If it might seem to readers of Coffin Cove, the first in a series of crime novels set on the Island, that Port Renfrew was the inspiration for Coffin Cove – well, they’d be partially...
by Jackie Elliott | Apr 10, 2021 | Coffin Cove, Stories, Storytelling, writing
In a writer’s life there are two days which are simultaneously terrifying and exciting. The first is the day sitting down to stare at a blank page at the beginning of a project and the second is publication day. In between, there are wonderful days and terrible days,...
