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Lance Valcour
@lancevalcour.bsky.social
Author of "If they only knew: A cop's journey with addiction and mental health." NOW AVAILABLE at most online bookstores!

About the book: https://lancevalcour.com/
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.

More: lancevalcour.com or www.facebook.com/share/1BgELc...
June 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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:

oacp.fthinker.ca/articles/boo...
May 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
May 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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...
May 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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
May 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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!
May 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The stage is set 😤
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Calling all police innovators: Roadmap for cutting-edge solutions
[SUBSCRIBER ARTICLE]
policinginsight.com/feature/inno...
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…
policinginsight.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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.
April 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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
March 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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.
a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white polo shirt and saying yes .
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March 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.
February 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Title page and book layout complete.

18 days till pre-orders available.

It's getting real!

Www.lancevalcour.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thankful
February 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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!
February 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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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...
Redmond police use drone to chase shoplifting suspect
You can run but you can't hide from Redmond police.
www.kiro7.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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:
February 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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!

lancevalcour.com
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February 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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.
January 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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
If They Only Knew
Follow a cop's battle with addiction and mental health, a journey of courage, family support, and personal triumph.
iftheyonlyknew.ca
November 29, 2024 at 1:23 PM