My name is Doris Ray and I reside in the beautiful lakeside community of Fraser Lake in North Central BC. My first published book “The Ghosts Behind Him” is the story of my son’s struggles and his family’s concerns, with the roller coaster symptoms of his schizophrenia. It was published by Caitlin press and the following year, received a BC2000 Book Award.

My two recent publications are “An Old Dead Tree in a Gravel Pit” (a memoir in prose and verse of 86 years of rural living) and “Battling the Elements and Other Odd Habits” (quirky humour, mostly derived from my long ago newspaper column. All three books are listed on amazon.ca

The book “Common Threads” is now out of print but my publisher said, “Do whatever you want with it.” I just might do that. In 1998 I learned about a long-held secret re: my maternal family history. My mother had been raised in a Victoria BC orphanage. Her mother ( my grandmother) was an Englishwoman who, in 1912 in Vancouver Canada, married a man from China. Through research, I learned about the prelude to World War 1 in England, extreme poverty in China, and anti-Chinese racism in Canada. I needed to fictionalize the gaps between what I was able to learn. The book was eventually categorized as “fictionalized biography.”