Award-winning Canadian Alison Lohans has published 29 books with presses in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Many of her books have been finalists for awards such as the CLA Young Adult Book Award, three different categories of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the High Plains Book Awards, the Shining Willow Award, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, The Prix Aurora Award, and the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award. This Land We Call Home (Pearson Education New Zealand/now Australia) won the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Award for YA Literature. Alison was named the 2012 Regina YWCA Jacquie Schumiacher Woman of Distinction for her many contributions to the arts in Regina, Saskatchewan, which has been Alison's home since 1976. See also: https://alisonlohans.wordpress.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/alisonlohans...

Released June 1, 2022 is STRONG AS A PHARAOH, Alison's second contemporary romance novel with BWL Publishing. Egypt! What better place to break free of painful ruts and crippling memories of two disastrous first marriages? Megan, a blocked mystery writer, signs on for a tour of this ancient world of temples, pyramids and pharaohs, desperately needing to re-create herself in the aftermath of the suicide of her emotionally abusive husband. She no longer needs a man in her life…she thinks…. Daniel, a professor and church music director, signs on for a tour of Egypt at the end of his sabbatical in Oxford. He loved his mentally-ill ex-wife, and still can’t understand why she left him all those years ago, taking their daughter with her. https://www.bookswelove.com/lohans-al...

Released September 15, 2021 is Alison's fifth picture book THE 1-DOGPOWER GARDEN TEAM, illustrated by Gretchen Ehrsam, with Your Nickel's Worth Publishing. Sophie loves her dog, Max. Max loves Sophie. But he also loves to dig. Can Sophie find a way to stop Max from digging up Mom’s garden? Shortlisted: The 2022 G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation Children’s Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards Finalist: First runner up in the Animals/Pets category of the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards https://www.ynwp.ca/books/191-the-1-d...

Released July 1, 2021 is CANINE CUPID, Alison's first contemporary romance novel, with BWL Publishing. (Canine Cupid was originally set for February 2022 release under its working title "Lost and Found Dog") Kara's vengeful con-man ex-husband has left her with a mountain of fraudulent debt - and now he's begun stalking her, too! What is a hardworking elementary school teacher to do, simply to stay afloat, let alone trust someone new? Is Kara even safe? Peter is still grieving the deaths of his beloved wife and daughter. Even so, his self-pitying widowed mother keeps escalating her unreasonable demands. Meanwhile, Peter's stand partner in the symphony comes on to him, although he's tried hard to make it clear that he's not interested - in anyone. When Kara slams on the brakes to avoid hitting a stray dog and Peter rear-ends her, an unexpected and unwelcome attraction begins to flare. https://www.bookswelove.com/lohans-al...

Alison's latest YA novel (also for adults) is speculative fiction, TIMEFALL, released in fall 2020, available on Amazon. (The first edition, Five Rivers Publishing, 2018, was a finalist for the 2019 Prix Aurora Award, YA category.) Other titles from recent years include the re-release of No Place for Kids(Heritage House, 2014) - see https://adoptionsask.org/2021/03/22/a... — and Leaving Mr. Humphries ill. Gretchen Ehrsam, Your Nickel's Worth, 2013, which was a finalist for the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the High Plains Awards, and the Shining Willow Award.