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The Write Track is a personal and practical look at the author's freelance experience as she tells how she made it from uncertain early days to the growing confidence of a veteran. This guide is packed with the information a freelance writer needs to know, including: a writer's self-evaluation profits from brainwaves details of the writing life and the writing business a writer's rights and responsibilities and those important "first steps" into the freelance world If you want to make a living as a freelance writer in Canada, you need to read The Write Track.

Reminiscent of W.H. Auden's Letters From Iceland, Betty Jane Wylie has used an epistolary format to reach out to Icelanders past and present. Through a series of letters to grandparents, cousins, children and grandchildren, Wylie assembles the threads of her experiences and those of her ancestors as she weaves an answer to the question "Who am I?" Letters to Icelanders features early Icelandic and Canadian history, recipes, poetry, sagas, travelogue and tales. As Wylie answers questions for herself, readers will be recovering memories of their own, and be prompted to ask themselves (and their relatives) how they became who they are. For a nation of immigrants -- from the English, the Scots and the Irish to the South Asians, the Somalis, and the Vietnamese -- such inquiries are essential if we are to feel comfortable in our place in the cultural mosaic.

In this lively book, Betty Steele argues that feminism has had its day – that men and women once again are drawing towards one another, seeking new understanding and reconciliation. She writes that men and women today are admitting that they are looking for love and sex that spring from friendship a slow growth of trust, and an affinity of the spirit – which together can lead to a lifetime commitment. Meanwhile, mothers are realizing that motherhood-on-the-run is a shabby excuse for the real thing, that one hour or so a day of "quality time" with their children is not enough and is shortchanging the next generation. Beyond its incisive analysis and documentation, Together Again offers hope that bridges can be built between the sexes towards a happier, healthier society in the 1990s.

It's not what families look like that matters, it's what they do that counts. But what do families do? How do they function? How do they affect society today? And what is the future of the family? With up-to-date statistics, insightful ideas and stories told from the heart, Betty Jane Wylie addresses these and other questions.

Have you ever wondered how you can simplify your life, enjoy greater spiritual fulfilment, and still pay off the mortgage, put your kids through college, and save enough for retirement? You don't need to starve yourself to live a simpler life. There is such a thing as having enough, and Betty Jane Wylie addresses that very issue while examining options for living simply in her latest book, 'Enough'.

The Write Track is a personal and practical look at the author’s freelance experience as she tells how she made it from uncertain early days to the growing confidence of a veteran. This guide is packed with the information a freelance writer needs to know, including: a writer’s self-evaluation profits from brainwaves details of the writing life and the writing business a writer’s rights and responsibilities and those important "first steps" into the freelance world If you want to make a living as a freelance writer in Canada, you need to read The Write Track.