Lance Valcour

I'm EXCITED TO SAY that I'm hosting my first official book signing at Indigo Innes in Ottawa on June 28th, 2025, between 12 and 3 pm!

Anyone who has already purchased 𝙄𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙊𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙆𝙣𝙚𝙬 can bring it to the store for signing.

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Thanks so much to Dr. Joe Couto, @oacp.bsky.social, for his wonderful book review of 𝙄𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙊𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙆𝙣𝙚𝙬: 𝘼 𝘾𝙤𝙥'𝙨 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝.

Read the review here:

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#Sunset #Thankful

MUST ATTEND EVENT: Canadian Association of Police Educators (CAPE @cape-acifp.bsky.social), Ottawa, Canada, June 3rd-5th, 2025, with the theme 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙩 ~ Abraham Lincoln

Check out their website for a FANTASTIC agenda: www.cape-educators.ca/2025-confere...

Thanks so much for your support @cape-acifp.bsky.social! I look forward to seeing folks there and talking about first responder mental health!

Attending the #CAPE2025
Conference in Ottawa in June?

We'll be raffling off copies of ‘If They Only Knew: A Cop's Journey with Addiction and Mental Health’ by @lancevalcour.bsky.social for our delegates.

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

Thanks so much to @boomingencore.bsky.social for allowing me to tell my story about #mentalhealth challenges and solutions post retirement from the @ottawapolice.bsky.social.

It's amazing that these kinds of issues often start showing up AFTER we leave our stressful careers!

The stage is set 😤

Calling all police innovators: Roadmap for cutting-edge solutions With the European Union’s draft Civil Security for Society Work Programme 2025 – which attracts significant funding from the Horizon Europe programme – already available online…

Calling all police innovators: Roadmap for cutting-edge solutions
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GREAT NEWS for Canadian book readers: The paperback version of 𝙄𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙊𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙆𝙣𝙚𝙬: 𝘼 𝘾𝙤𝙥'𝙨 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 is NOW AVAILABLE on Indigo.ca.

For more about the book and other locations to purchase it around the world, please to to lancevalcour.com.

Thanks to the Ontario Provincial Police Association 10-5 Podcast for hosting me on their show last Friday!

You can listen to it on most major Podcast sites or at oppa.ca/podcasts/ret...

Buy your copy of If They Only Knew: A Cop's Journey with Addiction and Mental Health today: lancevalcour.com

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I finished the final proof of my first book today!

Uploading to #IngramSpark tomorrow.

Just over four years from start to finish.

What a journey.

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

Title page and book layout complete.

18 days till pre-orders available.

It's getting real!

Www.lancevalcour.com

Thankful

I’m honored to be elected the 2025 President of Mystery Writers of America! There are so many benefits to joining
@mysterywriters.bsky.social, an amazing community of writers and readers! Thanks to the new Vice President Jim L’Etoile, the incomparable Margery Flax, and the whole wonderful board!

Redmond police use drone to chase shoplifting suspect You can run but you can't hide from Redmond police.

Redmond (Washington) police have a "Drone as First Responder" program and used it to track and arrest a shoplifting suspect, even though she boarded a bus to travel away from the scene. Police drones could also be used instead of some high speed police chases. www.kiro7.com/news/local/r...

Do you have 9 minutes to spare? If so, please consider listening to my AI-Generated podcast about "If They Only Knew: A Cop's Journey with Addiction and Mental Health"

Listen here if-they-only-knew-a-cops-journey-with-addiction-and-mental.simplecast.com/episodes/if-... or on Spotify/Apple Podcast:

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In 11 months, we've made 12,000 edits over three substantive & 2 copy edit rounds, and I just sent the editorial team my book's final recommendations.

We are so close to a final manuscript for "If They Only Knew: A Cop's Journey with Addiction and Mental Health."

Let's GO!

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The Fall of Selvandrea "sold" 1,371 free copies over the weekend (Jan. 25-26).

I got suspended on "the other place."

Here's what happened:

I ran a free book promotion on Amazon over the weekend.

And it blew up. 1,371 copies "sold" over two days.

I'd have been happy with 30 😅

BUT someone reported my account as "inauthentic (fake or impersonating).

No idea why.

If They Only Knew Follow a cop's battle with addiction and mental health, a journey of courage, family support, and personal triumph.

Timelines for publishing "If they only knew: A cop's journey with addiction and mental health."

We hope to “soft” launch on my 30th AA birthday at the beginning of February, with “pre-orders” available then.

Register on the book's website for updates at: iftheyonlyknew.ca