Before setting out to write a series of murder mysteries, Sydney was a flight attendant, advertising copy writer, TV production assistant, foreign movie reviewer, ESL teacher and copy editor/webmaster. All these ingredients in the stew of her life had her living and/or studying in Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rome, London and Sendai, Japan. Along the way she fit in a BA acquired at Simon Fraser University. An avid gardener, and life-time singer, she finally settled down in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, the Britannia Bay imagined in her series. not surprisingly titled A Britannia Bay Mystery. The debut novel, “Too Late for Redemption,” will be followed in the Fall of 2019 by “Tone Dead.”