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The Blizzard, a fantasy novella written by Robert G. Proudfoot in 2025 and accepted for inclusion within the anthology Fallen in Love, was scheduled to be published by Dragon Stone Press in March 2026. The Blizzard describes how a companion female angel (Arielle) helps a troubled and bitter, middle-aged man (Topher Chase) face and deal with his struggles: accidental death of his father as a child, subsequent estrangement from his mother who quickly remarried but favoured her second husband’s children, and his own estrangement from his wife and daughters. Aware that she is soon being recalled by God for retooling after spending too many years walking among humans, Arielle reveals herself to Topher and reasons with him, at peril to her own life. (Further information currently unavailable.) 

 

The Dragon Problem, a fantasy novel, was collaboratively written by Robert G. Proudfoot and nine other authors and edited by Shawn L. Bird of Lintusen Press in 2023/24, after which Lintusen Press published the book in August 2024. Shoshan (Susie), a wise and magical, female dragon, has lived peacefully among the villagers of Zos for centuries, but she has grown old and weak, and is seen as a dangerous liability that threatens the community. Dr. Mildred “Mandible” Stevenson, the village dentist running to replace the current mayor, Dr. Sanchez, campaigns to drive Susie away if not kill her, but Susie and several human allies – Gerdty, the traditional healer and her butcher husband Roland, Princess Viisi, King George’s daughter who also is a mayoralty candidate and her lover Jack, and Marianne the singing milkmaid, innovatively turn the tide. Princess Viisi becomes mayor, while Dr. Mildred is exposed as a villainous thief. Viisi vows to make Zos a kinder and more enlightened society, where even old dragons are welcome.    

 

ISBNs: 978-1-989642-44-3 (paperback); 978-1-989645-0 (eBook). 

Publisher: Lintusen Press, Salmon Arm, BC. LintusenPress.ca. 

 

Enduring Art, Active Faith – 3 Generations Create! The audiobook is comprised of two recorded short stories: The Guard and Half and Half previously written by Robert or Norma Proudfoot and published in 2019 within the hard copy anthology by the same name. The Guard focuses on an unlikely friendship that develops between an expatriate British schoolboy and an African night watchman during the turbulent early 1970s in recently independent Zambia. In Half and Half, an aging military veteran re-examines the satisfying life he has gained despite difficulties experienced – even with ongoing worldly conflict, poverty, and want – after encountering a disillusioned child during the Christmas season at a busy Edmonton shopping mall, who while so young, is already coping with disappointments and seeking answers for life’s complexities.  ​

 

ISBN: 979-8-3689-8455-1

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This audiobook was recorded by Robert Proudfoot and Audivita (www.audivita.com) in May 2023, and is available on-line through various retailers: Audible (audiobooks.com/audiobook/enduring-art-active-faith/691697); Awesound at (https://awesound.com/a/enduring-art-active-faith); Findaway Voices (www.findawayvoices.com); and Kindle Books (amazon.ca).

 

Amateurs on Safari, published by Robert G. Proudfoot in June 2021, is a travel memoir written in by his mother, Norma Proudfoot (1926 to 2015) about their family’s December 1970 car camping expedition covering 6,500 km across East Africa between Lusaka, Zambia and Nairobi, Kenya. The memoir glimpses into African cultures (particularly venerable Masai), and activities of dynamic new nations, but also encounters remnants of colonialism; learns about traditional trade between Africans, Arabs, and Indians, and centuries-old battles between Arab and Portuguese forces for control of East Africa; and reflects upon prehistoric artwork painted upon remote cliffs that depict ancient interactions between humans and animals. Norma offers poignant, often humorous observations about African wildlife, and promotes wildlife conservation, citing German zoologists Bernhard and Michael Grzimek, who studied various animal species living within Ngorongoro Crater or Serengeti Plains, for conserving wildlife. The family (including seven children aged 4 to 17) passed Mt. Kilimanjaro, but the magnificent, snowy summit of Africa’s highest mountain was photographed when climbed in 1971 by sons Gordon and Robert. More recent mountaineers report that Kilimanjaro’s glaciers have melted, due to global climate change. 

 

ISBNs: 978-1-77354-299-7 (paperback); 978-177354-314-7 (eBook).

Publisher: PageMaster Publication Services Inc., Edmonton, Alberta. books@pagemaster.ca.

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Mennonite Publications:

Shadow and Light. The Communicator, First Mennonite Church, Edmonton. January 15, 2018.

During COVID 19, Remember How Our Ancestors Struggled Through Other Pandemics, The MHSA Chronicle, Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta. March 2022.