Tag: fantasy

  • Summer Writing Retreat

      The heat is sweltering here in the southern tip of Quebec. While the hubby’s on vacation, I’m doing shorter writing days (we are ‘staycationing’ with the kids). The latest manuscript is nonetheless shaping up. Working title: Glass Houses. It’s an urban fantasy, somewhere between young and anyone adult, and frankly, I’m having a ball…

  • Edits, Commence! 

    It’s been a looong time coming, but I’m finally working on a first round of edits for the next novel, Starling’s Weave. This one is tentatively slated to drop in the springtime with Entangled Teen. This will be my fifth novel published with this scrappy and awesome American publisher.  The manuscript was finished and in…

  • New Book News!

    I’m delighted to announce that I’ll have another book dropping soon! Starling’s Weave is set to receive its release date soon, so stay tuned for news. This is a new book set within in a new, watery world. Falling under the YA fantasy genre, the plot revolves around Nieve Septile. Ostracized from her secretive, magic-user…

  • On Dystopias

      For me, a good dystopian world follows the logic of this Leonard Cohen lyric: There’s a crack / there’s a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in By their very definition, dystopian worlds are deeply flawed, dangerous, extreme and upsetting.  One thinks of the lottery system in Hunger Games, or the siloed…

  • Book Trailer and Book Birthday Celebrations for A Glamour of Blood

    Happy book birthday to A Glamour of Blood! I want to share this super cool book trailer (available on my Instagram account and on my Facebook page). Let me know what you think!     A Glamour of Blood is now available everywhere: Kobo: bit.ly/3OqwYI9 Amazon: bit.ly/45lk4C5 Google: bit.ly/44u0mmT Barnes&Noble: bit.ly/3KY8QvI    Huge thanks to…