Nexus Ring, The

Maureen Bush is from Calgary, Alberta

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Maureen Bush has a Post-graduate Certificate of Creative Writing from Humber College. She also obtained a Bachelor’s degree in History and a Masters in Environmental Design (Environmental Science), both from the University of Calgary. She is a trained mediator and public involvement consultant, and has written and edited in her field.

She has also studied with accomplished children’s authors, Cathy Beveridge and Richard Scrimger. The Nexus Ring, her first children's book, was selected as a CCBC Best Bets for 2008. Her second book, Feather Brain, is an OLA Best Bets 2008, and is nominated for the Silver Birch Express and the Hackmatack Readers Choice Awards. She is hard at work on Veil of Magic, Book II.

Born in Edmonton, Maureen Bush now lives in Calgary with her husband and two daughters.  

From the author:  
The Nexus Ring was born out of games and silliness with my husband and two daughters as we traveled from Calgary to Sooke, on Vancouver Island, and home again, each summer; and out of a deep love for the incredible beauty of the places we stopped at along the way. And it grew from there, because I just like making up stories.Many children have an ability to fluidly shift from reality into fantasy in their own
imaginations; I love to write about kids who really get to do that.