Rem Westland turned to writing after a career in the Canadian Forces, academia, public service, consulting, and politics. He has self-published a non-fiction account on his run for Canada’s parliament in the 2011 federal election (Running for the People?). His first novel (Badly Hidden) is about a former soldier who kills his wife during a PTSD event. A number of short stories on the theme of power abuse have been published by Ottawa Independent Writers. Articles about politics have appeared in eVeritas (publication of Canada’s Royal Military College) and in the blog pages of the Samara Centre for Democracy.