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La crise d’octobre

On November 7, I have a new short story released from Solarpunk Press, Le carré rouge,which is a very personal take on Québec and solarpunk, and how the two might entwined. The short draws upon many elements specific to the province’s history and my own activism, and I wanted to talk more about these.

La crise d’Octobre

And now we arrive to the crunchy, touchy parts. Québec’s history is riddledwith language strife–from the moment of British Conquest to this day, English and Frenchhave been at...

Le Tunnel Dufferin

On November 7, I have a new short story released from Solarpunk Press, Le carré rouge,which is a very personal take on Québec and solarpunk, and how the two might entwined. The short draws upon many elements specific to the province’s history and my own activism, and I wanted to talk more about these.

Le tunnel Dufferin

Halloween just passed, so I’m a little late for creepy tunnel stories, but here we are!

Most of the events in Le carré rouge happen in Québec City, my home. And you might not...

Le carré rouge

On November 7, I have a new short story released from Solarpunk Press, Le carré rouge,which is a very personal take on Québec and solarpunk, and how the two might entwined. The short draws upon many elements specific to the province’s history and my own activism, and I wanted to talk more about these.

Le carré rouge

I titled the story about the most personal part of it, the symbol of my real jump into a more active political life: the red square of 2012. It’s also when the story starts: in th...

How to Write a Fight Scene, Even if You Don’t Know Shit About Fighting — Part 2: Double Duty and Mistakes

Welcome back to my aptly named mini-series, in which I discuss how I approach fight scenes despite my lack of concrete knowledge of swordfighting (not that you shouldn’t research at all, but there are ways to get away with some basic know-how!).

Part 1 served as an introduction, and Part 3 will have a concrete example to analyse, but I wanted to dig in a little deeper on what, besides fighting, goes into a fight scene!

Making your scenes work double duty

Action-packed sequences are cool, no o...

How to Write a Fight Scene, Even if You Don’t Know Shit About Fighting — Part 1 : Introduction

Welcome to a mini-series! It was supposed to be a single post, butas it got longer I decided to split it in three. Which I should have done with that title too, I bet! Part 1 shall be an overview, Part 2 a look into making those scenes work double time for you, and Part 3 shall be an actual example, with commentary!

Part 1: An Overview

I’ve been writing fight scenes in my fantasy since forever. It helps that when I first put words down, I was playing DnD, which involved a lot of sword swingin...

Alexis le Trotteur – The Legend, the Real Man, the Retelling

Time to talk about one of my favourite thing in the world: Québec folklore!!

At the end of this month, Circuits & Slippers comes out. It’s an anthology of science-fiction fairy tales retellings, and I have a short story in it! But because you cannot say “fairy tale” without me hearing “local legend”, mine isabsolutely about Québec.

I ran into a little problem in that I wanted to write happy queers for this, and well… none of our legends end very well. Most are catholic warning tales about mak...

VIRAL AIRWAVES goes out of print … for a tiny bit!

I have an announcement to make! (and, spoilers, it is in the title)

For the time being, VIRAL AIRWAVES and THE WHITE RENEGADE are both out of print. It won’t last long–no more than a month–and though it might sound like bad news, I assure you I’m quite happy with it. My publisher, Incandescent Phoenix Books, offered me to get my rights back, and I accepted.

I will be republishing the novel under my own name ASAP. It would be there already, except that I am slightly swamped, and I want to do i...

Cover Reveal: DIFFERENT WORLDS, from Lyssa Chiavari

Sit tight, everyone, because I have something amazing today. And exclusive, which feels like such an honour, because Lyssa is one of my favourite writer in the whole damn world (as an author and as a person). And this cover reveal we’re having? Is for a novella, Different Worlds, which stars my favourite Fourth World character, Henry! (he even shares Viral Airwaves‘ main character’s name!) Mark your calendars for September 20. It cannot get here fast enough.

But before we get to the cover, Ly...

Joythief and How to Use Details to Build Character and Story Arcs

They stole what she loved most about herself. Now she’ll do anything to get it back.

I have been waiting for this book for as long as its author, Brenda, has been my critique partner, friend, and editor. This is the first writing I’ve ever seen from her, and boy is the result worth your time.

This is one of my first review on the blog, and I guess it’s not entirely impartial. That’s okay.JOYTHIEF deserves all the love I’m about to shower down on it. And then I’m going to pull out one thing it...

The Pack of Aces launches on June 1st!

Hey everyone!

I’ve got something really cool coming up this June. I will be joining four other asexual writers on a common blog, all dedicated to asexuality, writing, and genre fiction. And on how they interact with one another.

Our first month is mostly for introductions, and I’ll be first to go. Please come and check us out!

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