Johanna van Zanten

Johanna lives in Kelowna B.C., Canada, and Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico. She is an immigrant from The Netherlands (1982) and a Canadian citizen. After acquiring technical skills on the job for many years as a child protection social worker, she discovered her love of writing short stories in her late fifties. She attended UBS online EdX courses with Nancy Lee and Annabel Lyon, participated in writer’s conferences and workshops, and completed in-class intensive summer courses at UBC with Laisha Rosnau. Some of her stories made the shortlist in contests (Glimmer Train, CBC/UBC Short Story Contest with Fort Good Hope) and more recently, she was the winner of the Wine Country Writers’ Festival story contest – nonfiction 2021 with Prejudice and Necrotizing Enterocolitis. Several stories were published locally and online (Maple Tree Literary Supplement; Sage-ing—magazine for aging with grace, with Birth of a Book. Johanna self-published two novels and completed three more novels, two of which were accepted by Histria Books – Addison & Highsmith of Las Vegas, member of IPG Independent Publishers Guild. On Thin Ice, (2012). e-Book. Bookbaby Guardians’ Betrayal (2018). E-book and paperback. Bookbaby Between A Rock And A Hard Place (Dec 1, 2021 hardcover, August 1, 2023, paperback & e-book). Histria Books. Murder In The Strata (2017), long-listed for the Three-Day-Novel Writing contest in BC, unpublished. The Imposter (scheduled for January 16, 2024). Hardcover. Histria Books. Johanna’s blog: https://babyboomerwrites.wordpress.com

Johanna van Zanten

Health Care Insurance Comparisons: Another view

Having heard about the difficulties of my American friends have with obtaining suitable health care “insurance”, I read with interest the article in the Ojo by Tim Eyerman: “How Accurate is History? I like history and write historical novels. Mr. Eyerman began his article by noticing that history is often rewritten and revised, but then […]

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