Books

Blood makes them family. Everything else makes them trouble.

Marrying into the Crimer family means you’re in for more than Sunday dinners.

Angela’s mouth runs as loud as her opinions. Ben stays quiet but never blind. And Hester’s caught between family duty and freedom, trying to keep peace in a world where everyone’s talking and nobody’s listening.

From half-built garages to Christmas dinners that sound like brawls, The Crimers: In-Laws or Outlaws paints a raw, darkly funny portrait of working-class life in Atlantic Canada. Told through multiple points of view—including Stewie’s dry, blue-collar narration—it captures the noise, love, and stubborn pride of a family that can’t stop colliding with itself.

For readers of Larry Brown, David Adams Richards, and Russell Banks, this is domestic realism with grit and heart—a story about the families we can’t escape and the silences that hold them together.

Bunny's Poems is a heartfelt collection of verse written across a life marked by love, loss, resilience, and quiet faith. these poems capture the voices of a young mother widowed too soon, raising four children on her own, finding strength in hope and memory.

Her writing moves gently between grief and gratitude, offering reflections on family, faith, the sea, changing seasons, and the small miracles of everyday life. Whether she is speaking to her children, remembering her husband, or honoring the simple beauty around her, her words carry an honesty that reaches across generations.

Preserved and brought together for the first time, this collection celebrates a woman who endured hardship with courage and tenderness. Bunny's Poems offers readers an inimate window into a life lived fully, quietly, and with a love that never dimmed. 

Stewie McKay thought he knew hard work.

As a heavy tow truck operator in Saint John, New Brunswick, he spent years crawling through snowstorms, wrecks, freezing rain, and highway disasters under the glow of flashing amber lights. In the rough saltwater cities of Atlantic Canada, towing isn’t just a job. It’s survival.

At Colonial City Towing, every radio call could turn deadly.

One moment it’s a simple breakdown. The next it’s a rolled logging truck, a jackknifed tractor trailer, or a fatal crash buried in a Maritime snowstorm.

Through endless recoveries, sleepless nights, and brutal working conditions, Stewie and the crew battle weather, wreckage, addiction, injuries, and the emotional toll that comes with living life on the hook.

Alongside unforgettable characters like Ronnie Gibbons, Andre Wright, Ricky Moyer, Marie, Howie, and Hester, Stewie slowly realizes the job is destroying his body piece by piece.

But walking away from towing might be even harder than surviving it.

Raw, hilarious, heartbreaking, and brutally honest, Chronicles of Stewie McKay: Professional Hooker pulls readers deep into the blue-collar world of heavy recovery towing in Atlantic Canada.

Everybody wants to be a hooker... Until they gotta do hooker stuff.

Perfect for fans of Highway Through Hell, Heavy Rescue: 401, gritty working-class fiction, and realistic blue-collar storytelling. 

Stewie McKay: Rusted, Busted, but Still Fighting

A Memoir of Family, Work, Parkinson's, and Refusing to Quit

Stewie McKay never set out to live an extraordinary life.

He was a truck driver, tow truck operator, labourer, husband, father, and grandfather. Like many working-class Canadians, he spent his life doing whatever it took to provide for his family. Through decades of hard work, injuries, layoffs, accidents, and personal struggles, he kept putting one foot in front of the other.

Then came Parkinson's disease.

But Parkinson's was only part of the story.

From childhood adventures on the streets of Saint John, New Brunswick, to years spent behind the wheel of tow trucks, dump trucks, and heavy equipment, Rusted, Busted, but Still Fighting is a raw, honest, and often humorous look at a life shaped by perseverance. Along the way are workplace injuries, close calls, family memories, sleepless nights, unexplained symptoms, and the long road toward a diagnosis that had been quietly unfolding for years.

Written with humor, heart, and blue-collar honesty, this memoir follows one man's search for answers while refusing to let Parkinson's define who he is.

This is a story about resilience.

A story about family.

A story about survival.

And above all, a story about getting back up every time life knocks you down.

Because being rusted and busted doesn't mean you're finished.

It just means you've got another fight left in you.