Alan Kemister is the pen name of Phil Yeats, a chemist based in Halifax Nova Scotia, who began experimenting with creative writing in 2009. He has a keen interest in environmental science and dabbled in yachting and golf before turning to fiction after retirement. He's used the pen name Alan Kemister to maintain a degree of separation between papers written during his career as an oceanographic researcher and his more recent forays into fiction. Alan has published many short stories; some of them in anthologies available on Amazon. His first novel, A Body in the Sacristy, a traditional whodunit mystery, was published in April 2018. A second, Tilting at Windmills, appeared in December of that year. After a three-year hiatus, he published (September, 2021) The Souring Seas, the first volume in a trilogy about the hazards of ignoring climate change. For more information, visit https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com or sign up for his newsletter at https://skilled-founder-9438.ck.page/c4b472ead3