Literature has been a part of Steve McLellan’s life since he was a young boy — whether writing poetry or reading books filled with the adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Sherlock Holmes.

It’s how he thought he might spend his years before life entered the picture. With marriage and children came responsibilities.

He kept writing and reading but spent a decade working in commercial insurance as an underwriter and another 30 years for the City of Mississauga, writing “volumes” of standard operating procedures.

Not quite the writing career he had envisioned.

But two weeks after retirement, at the age of 62, McLellan suffered a heart attack. It was during recovery that he made a promise to himself to get “serious about writing.”

“Not that I had any profound insight before that but, boy oh

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