ABOUT JILL MARTIN
Coupled with a love of history and a talent for creativity, Jill has been telling stories for decades in classrooms from British Columbia to Nova Scotia. 2007 brought her home to the Maritimes and in 2012, upon retirement, she began her second career as an author. Since then, she has published four books and counting, two screenplays and many short pieces. Welcome to her website. Feel free to browse.
“Key 2 Key Consulting”
Jill Martin BA Med, Key2Key Consulting author and researcher, is pleased to share details of her past, recent and upcoming projects.
2003
- Consultant to Philippe Baylaucq, Director of the NFB documentary, “Moving Sands” which premiered in the 2003 Atlantic Film Festival and was shown on the “Nature of Things”.
2013-2015
- Return to Sable chronicles family life on Sable Island from 1884-1912.
2014-2019
- Historian and consultant for White Gate Films.
2016
- The Superintendent’s Daughter – screenplay- based on Return to Sable. Available now.
2016
- Sable Island in Black and White is a documentary compilation of historical pictures with accompanying anecdotal narratives chronicling life on Sable Island 1884-1913. All photographs and relevant documents are digitally restored and preserved in print and electronic formats. One reviewer calls this book a ‘gift to Canadian history’.
2017
- Murder in the Fourth: A Case of Mindslaughter, co-authored with Ruth Anne Whicher, is a story about a Jehovah’s Witness family living in an idyllic Southwestern Ontario community in the 1960’s as they struggle with the brutal sex slaying of a member of their congregation and the psychological murders of those lost in the dark labyrinth of cults.
2020 - From Thistles to Cowpies. In the early years of the Great War, Scottish immigrants risk everything to start new lives thousands of miles from their birth country. Before them looms the fear and uncertainty of a great unknown. Behind them, the dangers inherent in leaving beg them to stay. With zeppelins silently hovering in the night sky above their cities, they fearlessly board troop ships to make the perilous crossing to Canada.
2022 - The Fourth Sibling. The Fourth Sibling, non-fiction in all its grittiness, tragedy, and redemption, is my fifth book. Although not my story, I have been charged by my cousin Verna Bouteillier whose story it is, to write it. Unravelling her tortured past, I am humbled by her strength, courage, and resilience. For women whose voices have been silenced by an abusive partner, their role relegated to cooking, cleaning, and bearing children, Verna’s journey is testimony that within that claustrophobic, caustic environment she found her voice.
2023 - My Life Bridge by Bridge. ASaskatchewan girl, I grew up far from any life altering bridges, but by somebizarre twist of fate, bridges have defined how I see the world. Follow my quest to understand my bridge phobia and my struggle to gain control over it. Whatevertroubled waters, danger, threat, disease, or conflict my life-bridge straddled,I have learned to trust the safetywaiting on the opposite shore. For others fighting similar demons, I give youfull permission to laugh out loud, in hopes my journey will inspire you todefeat your own bridge devils.
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