One Writer's Breakthrough In the Freelance World

Find out how one writer made a successful freelance writing career for himself. The multifaceted Art Montague is the cover story for the latest edition of Events Quarterly.

(PRWEB) March 27, 2005 - Find out how one writer made a successful freelance writing career for himself. The multifaceted Art Montague (http://www.eventsquarterly.com/13e/5.php) is the cover story for the latest edition of Events Quarterly.

Toronto-born, Art Montague moved to Vancouver in his teens and began his writing career in the mid-60s, contributing as staff, freelance writer, and book reviewer to several Canadian newspapers: Western Producer, Globe & Mail, Northern Miner, and Daily Commercial News.

Following studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Art worked for two decades in the field of community economic development in Saskatchewan and Ontario, which included tenures as Executive Director of Cheshire Homes Foundation (Canada) and the Ottawa based West End Community Ventures. For Ventures, he edited Global Trading for Non-Profit Organizations, a manual funded by International Development Research Canada (IDRC).

Since a return to full-time writing in 2001, Art has published feature articles in several leading U.S. and international print periodicals. Also, during this time period, he sold more than sixty short informational articles to the Internet search site, Essortment, on topics ranging from early childhood education and Indian plant remedies to historical figures and northern lifestyle.

During 2001-04, Art contributed thirty-five articles to six of the best-selling Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader anthologies, two of which were published in Australia. He also wrote and published mystery, crime and mainstream fiction; one novel, a crime comedy, published in the U.K.; and essays (Travels With K.C.). Rainy Day Rainbows" from that series was accepted in Chicken Soup for the Grandparents Soul (2002). His short story, Gourmet Takeout," appears in Hardbroiled, an anthology of food-related crime stories (Wildside Press, 2003).

In 2003/04, under contract to Altitude Publishing Canada, Art produced his first non-fiction history, Canadas Rumrunners, for the popular Amazing Stories series and continued writing in this medium. Three more of his books are scheduled to be released in Spring/Summer 2005: Canadian Disasters, Meyer Lansky, and The Castellammarese War. The latter two are part of Altitudes new international series entitled Gangsters of New York."

Art lives in Ottawa and has ties in the Bahamas, where he and his wife, Joanne, were among the founders of a successful writers group in Nassau. Except for occasional trips to Nassau and adjacent islands, he lives in Ottawa year-round with his family, which includes two demanding cats and frequent disruptive though entertaining visits from his seven-year old granddaughter, K.C.

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