About the author

Gregory Phipps

<p><em>Writers</em> are not born so. Writers <em>emerge</em> <strong>&ndash; </strong>&nbsp;and from all walks of life. Everyone has a story inside them. Sometimes, it remains stubbornly wedged &ndash; resisting all effort to extract it. A real writer is simply one who can wrestle that story out and communicate it to inform, entertain and evoke emotion in a reader. Phipps has been a writer for a long time &ndash; since he learned to&nbsp;<em>write</em>. There&rsquo;s some debate about when that was. After a few drinks, he&rsquo;s been known to swear it was age five, but I suspect he&rsquo;s embellishing. But Phipps has genuinely agonized over many an essay; authored a few short stories; penned some credible entrepreneurship &amp; finance-related blogs; been published in several business periodicals; crafted compelling ad copy; transcribed more love letters than he&rsquo;d care to admit; banged out long-winded emails; drafted a strongly-worded complaint letter, or two, to Apple; and, even a scripted a couple of pretty entertaining screenplays.</p> <p>For the last twenty years, he&rsquo;s have been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist of minor repute and (very) limited monetary success. But writing has always taken a back seat to a role that paid the bills. He&rsquo;s made the decision to exit his investment career and spend the rest of his days pursuing his passion for telling a good story &ndash; the best way he knows how.</p> <p>Every writer must find their style, their genre, and their audience. Phipps likes to write about&nbsp;<em>place</em>&nbsp;as much as develop compelling characters, plot and story arc.&nbsp;Though well-travelled, he calls Canada his home.</p>