Last Chance This Life - A Hundred Letters – A book about how the author learned to protect himself from his son's addiction. It is a painful and honest read, but if you have a loved one who is in the throes of addiction you should read it. It might save your sanity.

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Two Old Broads and Other Poems – For lovers of serious poetry laced with humour and bawdy tales.

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More Sunshine Sketches – The second volume of the Sunshine Sketches trlogy – written between 2001 and 2003.

Last of the Sunshine Sketches – The third volume of the Sunshine Sketches trilogy – written between 2003 and 2005.

Both Sunshine Sketches books – More Sunshine Sketches and Last of the Sunshine Sketches. Buy them as a pair and save money.

Boss Talk – This book has sold over 30,000 print copies all over the world, and is used in such training organizations as the respected Dalhousie University College of Continuing Education Police Leadership Program. It is now available on-line for download as an e-book. (2,751 kb PDF)

5 Minute Police Officer – This book has sold over 10,000 copies and has been translated into several other languages. It is widely used by universities and such training organizations as the Dalhousie University College of Continuing Education Police Leadership Program. It is now available on-line for download as an e-book. (3,329 kb PDF)

Terry Barker

Terry Barker is an artist and the author of several hard-copy and e-books.

Terry Barker is one of those rare authors who is respected for his knowledge and wisdom in more than one field. He began his writing career by publishing articles and stories in magazines such as The Readers Digest and The Atlantic Monthly and evolved to writing books about management skills and communications. Terry eventually became an award-winning newspaper artist and columnist for The Coast Reporter, creating drawings and writing stories about the history of British Columbia's famous Sunshine Coast. Terry has recently published Last Chance This Life, a collection of his letters to his drug-addicted son living on Vancouver's notorious Downtown East Side.

In addition to his writing, Terry has taught management skills for two Canadian universities. Now retired, he spent the last 25 years of his career traveling the world as an independent consultant and lecturer in the field of leadership communications skills, specializing in such topics as managing disciplinary interviews in such a way that the offender rejoices at the chance to set things right, and counseling people with personal problems so that they are keen to get back on the job.

Terry is proud of the fact that he was one of the first authors in Canada to self-publish. He wrote Boss Talk, his first venture, in 1983, using a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer and a dot-matrix printer. Primitive by today's standards, but so revolutionary in its day that he was the subject of several astonished TV and radio interviews. “We don't need publishers any more!” he announced. “Now we are free!” He has continued on that vein, wanting complete control of the subject matter and appearance of his work.