Meet Helen C. Escott

Hi,

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Thanks for visiting my web site. Feel free to click around and see what I have been up to.

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After retiring from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2014 as their Senior Communications Strategist (Civilian Member), I decided to spend the rest of my life doing exactly what I wanted: To become an author!

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I began writing a blog called, I am Funny Like That, in 2009 after I had back surgery and could not do much else. I really did not think anyone would read it besides family and friends but over 222,000 people visited the blog and enjoyed it. I decided to self published the blog as a book in 2014, then spend the next year promoting it on book selling sites and literally selling it out of the back of my truck to recoup the cost. It was an expensive but rewarding adventure.

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There is no feeling in the world like holding your book for the first time.

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I decided for my second book, I needed a publisher to do all the heavy lifting. I submitted the manuscript for Operation Wormwood to Flanker Press in 2016 and a four weeks later they called. They agreed to not only publish my first crime thriller but wanted first option on my next four books.

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I was over the moon. I could not stop laughing, crying, shaking, and double checking my phone to make sure they really did call. Since then they have not only published Operation Wormwood, but Operation Vanished. Both books became bestsellers with their help and Operation Vanished won a Silver Medal – Best Regional Fiction at the 24th annual 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards and Operation Wormwood was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel in 2019.

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In 2020, I will be publishing, In Search of Adventure – 70 Years of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Newfoundland and Labrador. This has been a two-year labour of love. I interviewed 70 veterans and captured their stories. I take you behind the police lines to see what really happened during historic moments in this province.

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I will also be publishing the much anticipated follow up to Operation Wormwood: The Reckoning. Yes, Sgt. Myra is back, and he is looking for blood. You will not be disappointed.

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During my spare time I love to explore. I have a medal detector, and on the weekends, you will find me traipsing through abandon cold war sites, exploring forgotten about places or traveling the world looking for great food and wine.

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I live by Robert Frost’s, The Road Not Taken.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two Roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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I love going to book clubs and talking to groups, so feel free to contact me if you like discussing books.

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Thanks for stopping by,

Helen