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Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥: Authors Kate Gateley and Rob Wipond discuss their new books

MADE IN B.C. BOOK CLUB: Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥œTides of the SovereignÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ and Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Your Consent is not RequiredÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™.
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On this edition of Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Today in BCÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Kate Gateley and Rob Wipond, about their first literary efforts on the first edition of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Made in BC Book ClubÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™.

In the first segment of Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Today in BCÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, Kate Gateley who won top prize at the Canadian Book Club Awards in the sci-fi fantasy genre for Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Tides of the SovereignÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, the first book in a trilogy.

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Julia, the main character, sheÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s in her thirties, sheÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s found herself in university. SheÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s not super satisfied. Very similar to my own experience. Not sure what to do with herself and feeling like she was on the wrong path, sheÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s taking a course and this professor comes along Donal OÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™Brien, and heÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s like strangely familiar, and she canÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™t figure out why. Long story short, theyÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ve shared past lives together, so they have been living through reincarnation and prophecy-based curses to defeat the big bad Cassius. So, she goes one life to the next and she has to make some pretty big choicesÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, Gately says.

Rob Wipond is an investigative journalist. His articles have been nominated for 17 magazine and journalism awards. He talks abouts his new book Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Your consent is not required, the Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive GuardianshipÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, and what was the motivation behind writing it.

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜I got very interested in it because it happened to my father. He reached out at a difficult period in his life for help at a local psychiatric hospital in Kelowna and was fairly rapidly turned into an involuntary patient and treated against his will. I was quite aghast that here a person with no mental health history of any kind, a career college professor of computer engineering, could suddenly be a certified mental patient, supposedly lacking insight and needing to be forcibly treated. I was just aghast and immediately started to wonder who else is this happening to and whatÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s their storyÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, says Wipond.

More can be found on the authors at and .

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Peter McCully

About the Author: Peter McCully

Peter has been a broadcaster and publisher on both of CanadaÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s coasts and has owned a small newspaper and run an advertising agency along the way.
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