Ingrid Deringer

C.Ingrid Deringer was born into a large family in Saskatchewan Canada and has lived on the East Coast, West Coast and everywhere in between.

Her family’s love of music and dance and practical jokes left a great impression on her, but it is her fearless appetite for adventure that drives her to experience life to the fullest. In her 50's, her creative side beckoned her inner desire to write fiction. 

She holds a BA in Psychology and MA in Women’s Studies and is also an Acupuncturist and a Wedding Celebrant.  She has worked in the health and wellness field specializing in chronic pain and chronic illness for over 25 years. 

Now semi-retired, she loves to write and spend winters in warm climates with her feet in the sand where she can write to her heart’s content. 

FOR LOVE AND MERCY

For Love and Mercy is a heartfelt story of love and loss, courage and forgiveness.

“Suddenly angelic beings of light appeared. They said I was at a crossroad, and it was here where I had to make a choice . . .”

In 2022, forty-two-year-old Dr. Stormy Hera, a music professor at the University of Victoria, is serving a manslaughter sentence at Sunnydale Forensic Hospital in British Columbia. Although she can’t recall committing the crime, she feels strongly that she did the right thing.

In the hopes of jogging her memory and healing her soul, Stormy is tasked with writing her autobiography as part of her rehabilitation. Spanning the 1940s to 2026, and set in the Saskatchewan prairies, Olympia, Greece, and Canada’s West Coast, For Love and Mercy follows the lives of free-spirited Evangeline, and Stormy herself—including a near-death experience that changes everything.

IF I COULD LIVE AGAIN

If I Could Live Again will touch your heart and inspire you to never let go of your dreams.It is Ingrid's debut novel that

spans three generations and nearly one hundred years.It is a heart- wrenching story about love, loss, family—both blood and the people you choose, spiritual connection, and a dream coming true in an unexpected way.

SHALL WE DANCE

Shall We Dance is a children’s book about the love between Grandma Ging Ging and her Grandson Rio that spans a generation. The book is dedicated to her mother who taught her and her seven siblings to dance and to her brother the best dancer in the family and to her amazing talented daughter Tania Elizabeth, the mother of Rio. 

​HAILEY LOVES DANDELIONS

Hailey Loves Dandelions is a heart-warming children's story about family bonds and how one woman’s love of dandelions is passed down through the generations. Included in the back is a tasty fun recipe for dandelion and lemon muffins. This is the first book in the Love the Earth series by Ingrid Deringer. Ingrid creates books for her grandchildren that focus on family bonds and the importance of taking care of the earth.

She is currently working on the second book in the series, called Where is Away.

THE LOST TWINS (OUT SOON)

WHERE IS AWAY (OUT SOON)

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​REVIEWS

READER"S FAVOURITE GIVES "SHALL WE DANCE" 5 STARS!

'Ingrid Deringer brings it all together so eloquently in her touching picture book story, Shall We Dance? More compassionate and emotional than Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever, this book will touch the hearts of young and old alike. I love the song that is repeated throughout, the song that the boy, now a man, re-words to honor his Grandma Ging Ging. The plot begins with the boy as a baby, a two-year-old, a teenager, a young man, and the most touching moment of all when he gathers Ging Ging into his arm when she is too old to dance on her own two feet. The illustrations are lovely, subtle, and sweet, just like the story. Absolutely beautiful. Loved it." Emily-Jane Hills Orford

RED HEADED BOOK LOVER- "IF I COULD LIVE AGAIN" 5 STARS!

"IF I COULD LIVE AGAIN is an incredible novel that is guaranteed to move and inspire its readers from the very beginning to the very end.

READERS FAVOURITE GIVES "IF I COULD LIVE AGAIN" 5 STARS!

If I Could Live Again is such an inspiration to young and old, to never give up on your dreams no matter what life throws at you. From the variety of characters and their personalities to the descriptive scenes, this story keeps the reader enthralled from start to finish, 1925 to 2015.