Frank Talaber, who lives in Chilliwack, BC, Canada, is a traditional and self-published author who has been called a natural storyteller who writes like his soul is on fire and the pencil is his voice screaming. Literature written beyond the realms of genre, whose compelling thoughts are freed from the depths of the heart and the subconscious before being poured onto the page. Known to grab readers kicking, screaming, laughing or crying and drag them into his novels.
To date he has over eighty articles/short stories, sixty blog posts, over ten interviews (including being the first male on The Women Like Me Podcast with nearly 300 interviews) and fifteen novels written or published. One novel, The Joining, top three finalist in the Canadian Book Club Awards in 2020, out of nearly two hundred entries. Another, The Lure, finished a quarter finalist in 2018 Screen Craft Cinematic Book Competition. In 2000 my novel, Raven's Lament, formerly Haida Windsongs, made it to the Chapters Novel Contest semi-finals with 48/50 points. Entered into the 2023 Whistler Independent Book Awards received the following review, (Dream-like narration. Raven's Lament is a classic in waiting. The pulse of energy - otherworldly. I loved every inch of it.)
It also went to the last round of acceptance and lost out to the non-fiction version of the true story entitled, The Golden Spruce by John Valliant, by Harper press in 2004. His short story; A Sun-catchers Tears was voted #1 by the readers in an anthology of three hundred entries. Another, Were-Lovers of the Ethereal, Won Second Place In The Spooky Tales Contest: New Canadian Magazine, Aug 2025