Vernon Winter Carnival board member Paul Cousins has authored a Christmas novel.
The Christmas fable is titled Santa's Silver Belle.
The former broadcaster started in radio at age 16 on Vernon's CKAL 1050 in the mid-1980s and later at CJIB in Vernon in the '90s.
Working in the broadcast booth over the holidays every year got him thinking about where a new Christmas fable might come from.
Growing up on animated Christmas specials, Cousins’ newly published holiday story takes place at the North Pole, two decades after Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
The novel’s back jacket describes it thusly:
"Christmas Eve is right around the corner, and an accident at the North Pole that happened with just a few days to go suddenly has the elves scrambling to find a last-minute solution for Santa’s round the world flight.
"As teams of reindeer train for their flight, will the elves be able to come up with a fix?
"The workshop is already in full overdrive to wrap up every child’s Christmas wish – and the clock is ticking!"
Santa’s Silver Belle is rooted in traditions of Christmas past and brings the North Pole into the modern era.
The book was published Dec. 1 and is available on Amazon as well as Barnes & Noble as a paperback and as an e-book.
