EDITED TO ADD: Holy crap! Another TVWriter™ Online Workshop student is now a best-selling author, while I, the lowly munchman, labor at my far-from-dreamy dayjob. Maybe I should do the Workshop too? LB, can ya give me a little financial breakage? Huh?
In 2003, forest fires raged through the interior of British Columbia. The oppressive heat and dryness of that summer created the perfect conditions for the fires that burned out entire towns and countless homes over an area bigger than some European countries. In Kamloops, where I live, we were surrounded on three sides with heavy smoke and flames that jumped from treetop to treetop for more than a month. It was memorable, to say the least.