Miracle Cove

Alfred Cool has written 8 novels. Since 2010, he has won awards in short story contests, has published e-fiction, and is published in three Canadian anthologies. He attended Simon Fraser University to pursue English as his major. Al enjoyed a lengthy career as a computer systems analyst and taught privately and as a college instructor. He is a member of the Vancouver chapter of the Canadian Authors Association and the BC Federation of Writers. He writes extensively and intimately about his inspiration and life and travels on the coast of British Columbia.

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Alfred Cool has written 8 novels. Since 2010, he has won awards in short story contests, has published e-fiction, and is published in three Canadian anthologies. He attended Simon Fraser University to pursue English as his major. Al enjoyed a lengthy career as a computer systems analyst and taught privately and as a college instructor. He is a member of the Vancouver chapter of the Canadian Authors Association and the BC Federation of Writers. He writes extensively and intimately about his inspiration and life and travels on the coast of British Columbia. Prolific writer Al Cool has won first and third place awards in short story contests, has published stories in Toronto’s Danforth Review and New York’s The Otter e-zines, has contributed to three Canadian anthologies, and is the indie author of five West Coast novels. Once an English major at SFU, he has since lived in many unique BC communities as a logger, a mountaineer, a dreamer, a boxer, a programmer and Systems Analyst, a manager, a rebel, a teacher, and always an environmentalist. He has worked at polished board room tables and slept in ditches as a homeless wanderer. He brings to life through compelling and uniquely Canadian tales, as only a local can, the raw and bold characters living where Canada’s mountains meet Earth’s greatest ocean.

Publications and Completions: • Numerous short stories. • 'DRY CAMP!” 2013, is available worldwide as an eBook or as a paperback at Amazon.com/Books • 'THE 5 CENT MURDER" 2013 is available worldwide as an eBook or as a paperback at Amazon.com/Books and Kobo • “THE PONY CLUB” 2014, is available worldwide as an eBook or as a paperback at Amazon.com/Books • “NATIONAL VOICES” anthologies 2012 & 2014 are available through the Canadian Authors Association. • “THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH” 2017, is available worldwide as an eBook or as a paperback at Amazon.com/Books and Kobo • “THE HAIDA GWAII DETOUR” 2018, is available worldwide as an eBook or as a paperback at Amazon.com/Books and Kobo • “THE LA PROJECT” 2018 work in progress • “THE SILVER GLOVES” 2018 work in progress

Blog: http://bcboychronicles.blogspot.ca/ WWW: http://www.alcoolbc.ink Facebook: Al Cool

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Wildsound/TV (First Place) [2019]
Action On Film (Finalist) [2019]
Filmmakers/TV (Semifinalist) [2020]
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Wildsound/TV (First Place) [2019]
Action On Film (Finalist) [2019]
Filmmakers/TV (Semifinalist) [2020]
Moondance (Semifinalist) [2019]
Los Angeles International (Quarterfinalist) [2019]
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