Ray Saunders

Ray Saunders, an avid international traveller in pursuit of his favourite hobby - snooker, was almost an international citizen at birth. His mom, a war bride, emigrated from England to Canada via a trans-Atlantic liner landing at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His early years were spent in Halifax South-end where he attended Tower Road School. His frequent day-dreaming in class were not wasted, but instead may have been a forerunner of what lay ahead - writing and travelling. Ray graduated...See more

Ray Saunders, an avid international traveller in pursuit of his favourite hobby - snooker, was almost an international citizen at birth. His mom, a war bride, emigrated from England to Canada via a trans-Atlantic liner landing at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His early years were spent in Halifax South-end where he attended Tower Road School. His frequent day-dreaming in class were not wasted, but instead may have been a forerunner of what lay ahead - writing and travelling. Ray graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School (Halifax), where he played competitive football, and later from the DeVry Institute in Toronto. Ray was encouraged by his teachers to write. This, along with the inspirational stories told to him by his father Max and his uncle Frank, while sitting around the stove in there three room, humble abode in Greenspond, NFLD, would combine in later years to inspire him to do just that. Ray is a former International Snooker League champion. He was runner-up at the Canadian National Championship held in Saskatoon in '96, and represented his country at the World Snooker Championship held in New Zealand that same year. A chance meeting with a ghost at the Osborne Hotel in Torquay, Devon, U.K. and kissing the Blarney Stone in County Cork were among those experiences which helped to embellish and polish his story-telling - and which has ultimately led to the writing of the Black Magic Gang Saga. Ray lives in Cole Harbour, N.S.... See less