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A contest to Win a hard cover copy of Yukon Winter
To Win a signed hard cover copy of Yukon Winter enter by Halloween, October 31/ 2025: Review the book on your favorite site and let us know where you reviewed it. Sign up for news at our website. Find Yukon trivia, occasional contests and author...
Midnight Sun and All Day Dark
In our book, Yukon Winter, before Jackson drives to the Yukon to house sit, he researches everything. Jackson has anxiety and the more he can find out about something he has to do, the easier it is for him to cope. As we wrote, we imagined him spending several...
Yukon Wildlife
Thank you to all who have read Yukon Winter and have let me know how much you enjoyed it. We are loving your comments as much as we loved writing the book. Please post reviews where you got it (links below) and in your favorite reading app. It’s a new world in book...
Finding Kale
Kale just appeared at the door when Jackson met Isabelle, but writing doesn’t just happen like that. I speculate he was born of the love we have of Bernese Mountain Dogs, combined with the actions and personalities of all the dogs we have ever had. Throughout the...
Co-Writing with my mother and other stuff
Yukon Winter, the first full novel by Vicki and Lynn Beau has been released. We think it is a book that will make you want to take an icy February walk with your sweetie, then curl up with a cuppa something warm and cannoddle. Love seems to be a forgotten art. Bring...
Pantsers and Plotters
I don’t know how other writers do it, but when I write, I am an entity called a pantser. A writer who flies by the seat of her pants, allows the pen free reign on the page and listens to the characters bouncing on the bed in the middle of the night while she’s trying...
Standing on the shoulders of giants
We talked about writing a book together since Lynn was in grade 8 but then she did what all kids do. She grew up, moved away, got work, had kids, got busy. We still talked about writing but more in a fantasy kind of way, as in…wouldn’t it be great if we could? In the...
CONTEST Closes May 31
To Win a signed hard cover copy of Yukon Winter: provide an honest review on Goodreads or one of the book links be;pw to be entered in our draw. 1 entry per review. See below for further entry details. To receive our newsletter with Yukon trivia, occasional...
We’re so excited
We're so excited!We've got a cover, a publication date and the book is up everywhere you buy fine books for preorder. It seemed like this time would never be here and yet, here it is. Check it out at Flashpoint Publications. You can pre order at: Amazon,...
A Fall Visit to the Yukon
To visit the Yukon in the fall, go late in August or early September. That’s what I did this year. I found golden leaves that leave the light golden. Combined with that, this year there was wonderful summer weather, sunny with hot days and cool nights. I often...








