Margaret Gunning

Margaret is the author of The Glass Character, a novel about the life and times of silent screen comedian Harold Lloyd. She loved researching and writing this novel, stating that it was like "taking a time machine to the Roaring '20s". The Glass Character (Thistledown Press) is available in bookstores, libraries, Amazon.com, Chapters/Indigo.com, Thistledown Press.ca,, Kindle, and Kobo.

A published novelist since 2003, Margaret is a seasoned writer who has published her work in a variety of venues (columns, newspaper articles, poetry, short fiction and book reviews). Her first published novel, Better Than Life (NeWest Press, 2003) received very positive reviews, with the Edmonton Journal calling it "fiction at its finest" and the Vancouver Sun naming it as a worthy contender for the Leacock Award.

This was followed in 2005 by another novel, Mallory (Turnstone Press), a harrowing tale of a social misfit ostracized and bullied by her peers until she finds dubious acceptance in a group of teenagers living on the fringes of the law. In addition to her published novels, Margaret has written a book of poetry (The Red Diary, based on the diary of Anne Frank) and Bus People, a novel about the inhabitants of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. Her blog The Glass Character is a lively account of the ups and downs of a writer's life.