BY RYAN PORTER
A.L. KNORR HAD never written a novel before she left her job as a marketing director in Canmore, Alberta, and moved to Italy for love. When that relationship ended, she threw herself into writing her first book.
Born of Water, about a teenager whose mother is a mermaid, was published on Amazon’s all-you-can-read ebook service Kindle Unlimited in December 2016, kicking off a prolific two-year period during which Knorr produced another 16 contemporary fantasy YA novels and novellas. The proceeds have financed a wanderlust lifestyle – Canadian Rockies in the summer and Italy in the winter.