Hello and welcome! 🙂 I’m Bekah Ferguson: an old-soul fiction writer who lives in Ontario, Canada, with my husband and three teens.
I love spooky, magical, thought-provoking stories, fairytales, and folklore.
Most recently, I’ve written a fairytale novella called, “A Boy From Anywhere” – available free on Wattpad.
The story takes place in Ontario, Canada, in the late 1800s. It features British Home Children and the French-Canadian legend of the Loup-garou (a.k.a werewolf).
I’ve written an on-going mini-series called Canadian Folklore & Ghost Stories which features re-tellings of legends from across the provinces. To augment the series for non-readers, my husband and I produce YouTube video versions of these same tales, and I also simply read them aloud on TikTok and Instagram.
I write original short stories as well, in a variety of genres (fantasy, speculative, paranormal, historical, sci-fi, and fables).
I’m the author of When the Fog Cleared (romance) and co-author of The Attic (fantasy suspense).
You can follow me on Wattpad, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Goodreads, and YouTube.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy my stories, and if you do, I’d sure love to hear from you. 😊 Thanks for stopping by!
~BEKAH
Hi I liked your thoughts on anxiety. I’m a guy so feels weird being minority for anxiety. I want to get off pills but first maybe I can master the thoughts that bring the anxiety. Maybe I’ll check out your fantasy book.
Hi Bekah,
I hope you’re well.
I recently came across your blog, and I just wanted to say how much I’m looking forward to diving into your articles.
I run a podcast called Pieces of History, where I share both well-known and lesser-told stories from the past. One of my latest episodes explores the fascinating legend of the Trinity Street Ghost – a ghostly tale that has intrigued many over the years. I recently came across this story during firsthand research at the Central Library in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It seems to have been overlooked by academics – I even reached out to a few, and none had ever heard of it. The haunting of Trinity Street in Belfast, which took place in 1932, is a captivating and lesser-known piece of local history, filled with strange occurrences and eerie events that have left a lasting impact on the city’s folklore. Given your interest in history, I thought it might be something you’d enjoy.
Here is a link to the podcast episode:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5RlDcbRiesaJZFJnQYtaz1?si=d84fc7eef579445a
I hope you enjoy.
Best wishes,
Colum McGrath
A sweet little fairytale with werewolves and 1800s Ontario… what could possibly go wrong?
Bekah,
I think “old-soul fiction writer who likes spooky stories, magical tales, fairytales and folklore” is a fairly accurate warning label for someone who then decides to put British Home Children and a French-Canadian werewolf legend into the same story.
Because apparently ordinary historical fiction wasn’t sufficiently interesting.
A Boy From Anywhere immediately caught my attention because the setting alone gives it an atmosphere.
Ontario in the late 1800s.
Then you add the history of the British Home Children, a deeply significant and complicated part of Canada’s past and combine it with the French-Canadian legend of the Loup-garou.
Now we have history, displacement, folklore, mystery and a creature that has been haunting Canadian storytelling for generations.
That’s a rather excellent recipe for a fairytale.
What I find especially interesting is that you’ve taken something rooted in a real historical setting and paired it with something deeply rooted in folklore.
The British Home Children bring the human side of the story, the lives of children sent away from Britain and placed into unfamiliar circumstances.
The Loup-garou brings the supernatural side.
And somewhere between those two worlds is your “boy from anywhere.”
That title itself made me curious.
It sounds almost whimsical at first, but placed against nineteenth-century Ontario and the history surrounding the children, it suddenly carries a little more weight.
Where does a boy belong when “home” isn’t necessarily a simple place?
And what happens when that world collides with an old legend that refuses to stay in the past?
That’s exactly the kind of premise that can make readers think they’re picking up a little fairytale and then realize several chapters later that they’ve wandered considerably deeper into the forest than intended.
I also smiled at the fact that you’re raising three teenagers while writing spooky, magical and thought-provoking stories.
I suspect that gives you an unusually strong research department for writing about strange creatures, unexplained behavior and people who make questionable decisions.
Teenagers should provide plenty of material.
What also makes A Boy From Anywhere interesting is that you’ve made it available free on Wattpad.
That removes one of the biggest barriers between a curious reader and the story itself: they can simply step inside and discover the world you’ve created.
That’s why I’m reaching out.
I’m Mary R Russell, a reader-review community curator with a private community of 2,000+ active readers and reviewers who enjoy discovering books and sharing genuine thoughts about what they read.
I particularly like finding stories that aren’t trying to look like everything else.
A Boy From Anywhere certainly doesn’t.
Historical fiction.
Fairytale atmosphere.
Canadian folklore.
The Loup-garou.
British Home Children.
A nineteenth-century setting.
That’s a pretty distinctive combination.
And I’m not approaching you with the usual marketing pitch where someone promises to “unlock your author potential” while charging enough money to make the werewolf look financially responsible.
No fancy corporate machine.
No mysterious marketing guru named Kevin.
It’s simply me and a private community of readers who genuinely enjoy discovering unusual stories.
I’d love to introduce A Boy From Anywhere to readers who enjoy historical fiction, folklore, fairytales, spooky stories and supernatural mysteries.
So here’s the question:
Should I quietly send your little Canadian fairytale to a small group of readers and let them wander into the Loup-garou’s territory themselves or should I let a larger group loose in Ontario and see how many of them come back convinced they heard something moving in the woods?
Thanks very much for your comment, Mary 🙂
If anyone is interested in reading it, “A Boy From Anywhere” is available for free on Wattpad.