Jane Allison – författare

Nonprofits and community groups have great stories to tell to prospective donors, funders and volunteers. Start Spreading the News shows how to turn worthy events and announcements into newsworthy story pitches that will get the attention of reporters, editors and producers. Start Spreading the News recaps eight years worth of conversations and presentations from an annual media relations summer camp offered free of charge to nonprofits and community groups by The Hamilton Spectator and Mohawk College. All proceeds from the sale of Start Spreading the News will go to SpecKids Unlimited and help make Hamilton an even better place to be a kid and raise a child.

Emma Holt has been happily married for many years to the gardener of the local Quaker school. Headmaster Philip Manners, on the other hand, has been unhappily married to the Bishop's daughter for just as long. When Philip finds Emma in the school library, he can't help but be intrigued by her. Emma, dealing with her two eldest sons going off to war, is overloading herself with work to keep her mind focused. Philip, meanwhile, is trying to understand how his students could enlist when he teaches them pacifism, but is also struggling with his conscience: is he really falling in love with another man's wife? When conscription finally arrives and all the eligible men are called up, Emma and Philip find themselves unavoidably tangled up in each other's lives more and more. Emma is pushed to her limits with worrying about her sons and trying to juggle all her new duties, while Philip, ineligible to be called up, can't help but rush to comfort her when the worst happens overseas. With Emma torn between the loyalty she has for her husband and the passion she's been missing for so long with Philip, will she fight to hold on to Philip or stand back when events conspire to rip them apart for good?