Stephen Garrity:  

Life Stephen H Garrity’s passion has always been story telling. Although he has been writing short stories since the early 1970’s, his first love being film, he enrolled as a film production student at Montreal’s Concordia University. Due to the poor economic prospects in the field at the time, he switched to the Bachelor of Commerce program in 1979 and diverted his storytelling passion back to the written word. Being a filmmaker as well as a writer, the approach Steve took was that every story must make a good film as well as a novel. In essence, every story he writes is adapted from a mental screenplay. His first stories were all shorts, but eventually began focusing on novels, and his first effort, a time travel epic, was by his own admission, overly ambitious for a first novel, and spent years writing and researching the mid nineteenth century when the story takes place. The first draft for The Wizard Blew His Horn was completed in 1986, a short version of the 1000 page monster was completed the following year. During the mid 1990’s, Stephen became heavily involved in provincial politics during the height of the Quebec sovereignty referendum fighting against the separatist forces as an active member of the Special Committee of Canadian Unity. During the months leading up to the referendum and during its aftermath, the SCCU was i...Expand for more