Local Authors

Louise Abbott is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker in the Eastern Townships and president of ELAN (English-Language Arts Network). 

She has published seven books, including, most recently, Islands of History (2025). 

In 2019, she established Studio Georgeville press, which has produced three anthologies of Townships poetry and prose.

Heather Croghan is a children's author who is passionate about storytelling. With two delightful children’s books published, she enjoys bringing joy to kids, classrooms, and families through her storybooks, and the moments shared together.  

Her mission is to create authentic stories that inspire joy and meaningful conversations. Childhood can be challenging, and storybooks help children and adults understand the world, but sitting, reading and talking together.

Her latest book, Snowflake's Journey is an  allegorical storybook for all ages. It is the story of a tiny snowflake that lands on a mountaintop and rolls along with the help of a wise breeze, growing, changing, and gathering layers from its experiences before ending its adventure at a lake.

From the moment she first climbed into the saddle, Shelley Lee Mizener discovered that movement changes everything. In her book Wild Pony, she shares a life lived beyond the fences, across continents, through sport, and community, along open roads and unexpected turns.

Wild Pony is a memoir of courage, presence, and trust, in the body, in the world, and in the quiet intelligence that guides us forward. Through horses, trails, athletics, and everyday adventures, Mizener shows that freedom isn't somewhere else —it begins the moment you choose to move with intention and heart. 

Frank Nixon is an author and former journalist with deep roots in Quebec's Eastern Townships. A graduate of McGill University and Concordia University, he contributed hundreds of articles to community newspapers throughout the region, covering everything from municipal politics and local business to the people and events that shape small-town life.

His debut novella, Wayward Voices, draws on those experiences. Set in the fictional town of Wayward, the story follows a disgraced Montreal reporter who seeks refuge in a small Eastern Townships community while confronting the mistakes, memories, and relationships that continue to haunt him.

Learn more at:  www.franknixon.com.

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Andrew Retchless is a lifelong son of Quebec's Eastern Townships. He spent 44 years in education before turning to fiction, and is the author of The Sneaky Hollow Chronicles: Where Time Stands Still — magical realism rooted in the landscapes and communities of a region he knows by heart. The characters of Sneaky Hollow first came to life on his popular Townships weather page, where they found an audience of over 3,500 readers before the book was ever written. A graduate of Bishop's University, Andrew lives on the shores of Lake Lovering in Canton Stanstead with his wife Marie-Pier. For more about Andrew visit andrewretchless.com.