A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaWhat Making My Own Book Covers Taught Me I went into this assuming a good image and a strong idea would be enough. It isn’t. A book cover isn’t just design, it’s positioning. It has a job to do in a fraction of a second, often at thumbnail size, often in a crowded field, often for someone who has never heard of you. These are the lessons that actually moved the needle. 1. Don’t Lead With Your...
Launching the first book There are moments where a project stops being an idea and becomes a world. After years of development, detours, rewrites, and reinvention, Warriors of the Last Days – Book I: THE REFUSAL is no longer in the making. It is ready. It is launching! We have officially received our ISBNs. That single administrative milestone unlocks everything that follows: distribution...
Why Our ISBN Delay Matters for the Launch of Our First Book Launching a first book is supposed to be about final edits, cover files, print proofs, metadata, retailer setup, and building excitement. Right now, one of the most basic pieces of that process is still missing: our ISBNs. We submitted our request, followed the published timeline, and then followed up after that timeline had already...
FEELING READY: MAKING PROGRESS There is something exciting about how the body feels when you know you are close to something. Close to the finish line, close to finishing the manuscript. We just completed The Lullaby: A Song for the Last Days, inspired by the music video we recently edited, set in the Warriors of the Last Days universe. As usual, it was meant to start as one thing, some sort of...
A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear Canada
Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.