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June 1, 2021
Beacon Book Box Feature
I am thrilled to let you know that The Phantasmer Cycle will be included as free e-book uploads in June 2021’s Beacon Box Book! You’ll be able to get In Restless Dreams and I Walk Alone both for FREE when you order this awesome book box!
It also includes a mug, a picture frame, and a signed book!
May 15, 2021
I Walk Alone Releases June 29th
I Walk Alone, the second book in the Phantasmer Cycle duology, hits the shelves on June 29th. You can pre-order the book today!
If you haven’t read the first book in the series, In Restless Dreams, it’s available for sale from Amazon or directly from Parliament House Press.
October 26, 2020
Havoc & Happiness Hits the Shelves today!
Havoc & Happiness hits the shelves today!
Michaela Peters didn’t let dying get her down.
After all, it was only for a few minutes, and the hospital paid her a huge settlement. Now she’s an emancipated minor with nine million dollars in the bank and her entire future ahead of her. Life could be a heck of a lot worse!
Michaela moves to Montana, determined to enjoy the dishes of queer high-school drama life is serving up. Instead, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a fight between horrible monsters that shift with a person’s imagination, and the gorgeous trigger-happy siblings who hunt them. The problem? She seems to be able to destroy the monsters with a thought, but the hunters haven’t decided which side she’s on.
Havoc & Happiness is widely available in e-book, and available in print from Amazon or directly from the author.
For a list of retailers, visit the Havoc & Happiness page of my website.
September 9, 2020
Havoc & Happiness Cover Reveal
Havoc & Happiness shits shelves October 26, 2020!
Michaela Peters didn’t let dying get her down.
After all, it was only for a few minutes, and the hospital paid her a huge settlement. Now she’s an emancipated minor with nine million dollars in the bank and her entire future ahead of her. Life could be a heck of a lot worse!
Michaela moves to Montana, determined to enjoy the dishes of queer high-school drama life is serving up. Instead, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a fight between horrible monsters that shift with a person’s imagination, and the gorgeous trigger-happy siblings who hunt them. The problem? She seems to be able to destroy the monsters with a thought, but the hunters haven’t decided which side she’s on.
Add Havoc & Happiness to your Goodreads ‘To Read’ list today.
June 23, 2020
Wire Wings Releases Today!
Wire Wings is here!
Graciela Neumann does as she’s told. She cowers beneath the towering intellect of her parents, goes to school, toes the line. Except when she’s connected to the virtual reality world that gives every teenager what we can only imagine—to be completely free. In the Waves, Graciela can be anyone, anywhere, anywhen.
And in the real world, Graciela is drowning. Her best friend recently passed away, she’s suffering from crippling panic attacks, and her only connection to life is Khaiam, who keeps trying to draw her back to reality.
But how can he compete with the Waves? There, she can shed her identity and recreate it however she wants. And in that world there’s Thomas, the stunning stranger she’s only ever met online, the boy with the deep, sad eyes and beautiful laugh. Thomas seems to be able to defy the rules of the Waves, and he holds secrets of his own—about the origins of his creation, about the nature of AI, and about Gracie’s own past.
Visit the Wire Wings page for purchasing options.
February 9, 2020
The Ice Storm
Des Nouvelles D’Ailleurs is a French language-learning company. They create interactive novellas to help kids aged 11-16 learn to speak other languages – in this case, English.
If you know a French speaker who wants to learn English, these interactive books are a great place to start! Kids can click on difficult words to learn the French meaning, or see accompanying images.
Get your copy of The Ice Storm today!
January 31, 2020
In Restless Dreams Hits Shelves Today
If you’re a fan of contemporary young adult literature with a splash and dash of fairy magic, this book is for you. Dive into Sylvia’s world, as her new life on the Upper East Side crashes headlong into a world of mystery and magic.
Get your paperback copy directly from the publisher.
Get your ebook copy from Amazon in Canada.
Get your ebook copy from Amazon in the US.
Sylvia is just a normal girl with huge, normal problems – her mother’s attempted suicide; how to adjust to life on the Upper East Side; trying to make friends in a rich prep school where she doesn’t belong; whether or not to trust the cute boy with the dangerous eyes.
She thinks that’s more than she can handle, but she tests the limits of her endurance when she learns that she is the long-awaited Phantasmer, a human who can change the fabric of Fairy simply by believing in a new story. Sylvia’s life is thrown off course as two warring Courts, the Seelie and Unseelie, both attempt to co-opt her gift to fight the other Court, which she has to deal with while trying not to get kicked out of school for fighting.
And it doesn’t help matters that the fairies begging for her help are both attractive young men – with their own agendas.
In Restless Dreams Hits SHelves Today
If you’re a fan of contemporary young adult literature with a splash and dash of fairy magic, this book is for you. Dive into Sylvia’s world, as her new life on the Upper East Side crashes headlong into a world of mystery and magic.
Get your paperback copy directly from the publisher.
Get your ebook copy from Amazon in Canada.
Get your ebook copy from Amazon in the US.
Sylvia is just a normal girl with huge, normal problems – her mother’s attempted suicide; how to adjust to life on the Upper East Side; trying to make friends in a rich prep school where she doesn’t belong; whether or not to trust the cute boy with the dangerous eyes.
She thinks that’s more than she can handle, but she tests the limits of her endurance when she learns that she is the long-awaited Phantasmer, a human who can change the fabric of Fairy simply by believing in a new story. Sylvia’s life is thrown off course as two warring Courts, the Seelie and Unseelie, both attempt to co-opt her gift to fight the other Court, which she has to deal with while trying not to get kicked out of school for fighting.
And it doesn’t help matters that the fairies begging for her help are both attractive young men – with their own agendas.
January 7, 2020
Wire Wings Cover Reveal
Wire Wings is here!
Graciela Neumann does as she’s told. She cowers beneath the towering intellect of her parents, goes to school, toes the line. Except when she’s connected to the virtual reality world that gives every teenager what we can only imagine—to be completely free. In the Waves, Graciela can be anyone, anywhere, anywhen.
And in the real world, Graciela is drowning. Her best friend recently passed away, she’s suffering from crippling panic attacks, and her only connection to life is Khaiam, who keeps trying to draw her back to reality.
But how can he compete with the Waves? There, she can shed her identity and recreate it however she wants. And in that world there’s Thomas, the stunning stranger she’s only ever met online, the boy with the deep, sad eyes and beautiful laugh. Thomas seems to be able to defy the rules of the Waves, and he holds secrets of his own—about the origins of his creation, about the nature of AI, and about Gracie’s own past.
January 6, 2020
Lit Cafe Reading
I’m thrilled to be reading at the next Lit Café!
Monday, January 13, Alexandra Neighbourhood House will be presenting the next chapter of their long-running quarterly series of public readings, Lit Café.
The theme is, Other Worlds, Other Times: Readings of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Historical Fiction.
I’ll be reading from my upcoming release, In Restless Dreams, and will have copies of past publications for sale. Come down and check it out!
