Author, poet, songwriter Bill Arnott is the bestselling author of The Gamble Novellas, award-winning travelogue Gone Viking: A Travel Saga, Dromomania, and the illustrated all-ages novella Allan's Wishes. His work is published in Canada, the US, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia and his column Bill Arnott's Beat is a feature in magazines around the globe. Bill's been awarded for prose, poetry, songwriting and for his eight year Gone Viking trek has been awarded a Fellowship at London's Royal Geographical Society. When not trekking the planet with a small pack, journal, and laughably outdated camera phone, Bill can be found on Canada's west coast, making friends and misbehaving.