Richard Wm Short

Mr Short lives in the rural outskirts of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, with his wife (and Muse), April.

A professional writer since high school, he is an award-winning playwright, a former magazine columnist and internationally-published author

While researching a series of novels he started writing when he taught small engine mechanics at the Embogo Training Centre, in Papua-New Guinea, he stumbled onto the real-life biography of Mata Hari. He found her tale so compelling he finished his first eBook novel, 'I am Mata Hari ~ the life story of the world's most famous dancer, courtesan and spy', before the original project, a trilogy that mirrors Canada's search for identity.