family Values
In 2048, NewTor (formerly Toronto) is the capital of the young country of Ontario. It has reached Stage Four of family Values, a progressive and dynamically algorithmic form of urban governance. family Values has spread beyond the capital with outlying cities at varying stages striving to achieve Stage Four. Not all Ontarians embrace its ideological ideals. Many migrate to neighbouring Nova Canada or Quebec; others north to disparate communities that, while growing rapidly, are too fragmented to pose a threat to family Values and its fortified partnerships with the United States and Indigenous peoples.
This is all new to reclusive sexagenarian Ken and eighteen-year-old Otto, who Ken found as a toddler at his doorstep and raised off-the-grid. As guardian, Ken feels obligated to suspend his idyllic hermitic life and re-enter a world he'd spurned to guide Otto to NewTor and fulfill the boy's wish to determine his parentage. While practical experience and instinct are ideal for the wilderness portion, they are of little use in the realm of an urban family Values world still evolving, especially after discovering their complex familial connection to its founders.
I am an independent author from Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. I was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and emigrated to Canada before I turned seven. I grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario then moved to Toronto where I enjoyed a successful I.T. career for twenty years before becoming a writer.
I have written eight books, including six novels, a story collection, and a book of screenplays. My writing could be categorized as upmarket fiction.
I also offer coaching for aspiring storytellers to take advantage of my unique combined experience in writing and project management, as well as other services such as proofreading and copyediting.
