Christmas 2032: The British Republic's citizen government are about to begin their second year in office. Last year was pretty rough for some of the randomly chosen ministers, despite the best efforts of the Cabinet Support Team to keep them in line. But they survived the worst the Provisional Democratic Army could dream up?and news that the world came close to a fatal pandemic never did leak out. They are wiser now, being all experienced and that. Some are also cockier, and one or two are getting positively bolshy. It's just a pity someone will have to put their life on the line this year...
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Carolyn Steele was a psychologist, a paramedic, a proof reader and several other things, not all of them beginning with P. A trucker, for example. She began writing the day she decided to try and see the world...doing both just to find out if she could. It made a change from teaching CPR to nightclub bouncers and designing wedding cakes. When excerpts from her first travelogue were published by the Rough Guides she decided to keep on doing both.
Carolyn maintained that she was either multi-faceted or easily bored, depending on who was enquiring. Born and bred in London, England, Carolyn became a Canadian citizen and lived in Kitchener, Ontario until her passing in November of 2020. She was only 63, and is dearly missed by her son, Benjamin, his wife, Deana, and their two daughters, who Carolyn would be very proud of. Her partner and editor, Kenneth Chadwick, passed in April of 2023. Carolyn's family will be eternally grateful for his love and loyalty.
Shortly before her passing, Carolyn finished the final book of her "Queenie trilogy" -- a delightful speculative fiction series about a silly old gal who "can't do nufin'" accidentally becoming England's head of state.
The Armchair Emigration series was to comprise three books, Carolyn would call it a trilogy, except that sounds a bit serious. The first two books, "A Year On Planet Alzheimer And A Little Longer In Canada" and "Trucking In English" follow two of her biggest adventures. She never did work out how to write the third book.
Following completing the Queenie trilogy, Carolyn was considering writing two children's books and something serious to do with grief, loss and anger.
Her son might pick that last one up in her stead.