Hello, my name is Connie Massing and I am the regional writer and residents for the Edmonton Metro Libraries. My role is to provide free writing advice and support for writers of all ages and all experience levels in the communities of Fort Saskatchewan, St. Albert and St. Coney County. So I wanted to tell you about some changes in the services I'm offering to the public during these challenging times. This is how things were supposed to go. I was supposed to be in an office in a large public building surrounded by books and wonderful library staff and you were quarterly invited to come and meet with me about your writing projects and maybe you even signed up for one of the courses I was offering through the library where we were meant to gather in a room. Well, you can see the problem. Everything changed in March of course but we can still meet one on one and we can still gather virtually. Here's the new plan. As of May 1st, I will still be available to library patrons from St. Coney County. But I'm also very excited that beginning on May 1st, I will start my time a few months early as the writer and residents at St. Albert Public Library. I will take some time off in July and then in the middle of August, I'll return to St. Albert and I'll stay there till the end of the year. So this video is by way of introducing myself to all of you in St. Albert and it's in lieu of gathering together in an actual room and having coffee and meeting one another. Hopefully we'll be able to do that sometime in the fall. In the meantime, I have some great programming lined up and I'd be delighted to meet with you one on one about your writing projects via email, Skype, FaceTime, Zoom or you know what, we could even just talk on the phone. So I look forward to meeting with you and in the meantime, stay well.