Emile was never supposed to matter this much. Born in the editing of The Exodus out of two thin minor characters merged into one - a look at how a character earns his place in a story.
June 6, 2026
THE HEART OF FRANCON
06June
May 30, 2026
SNAG. YUKON.
30May
Snag, Yukon, still holds North America's coldest recorded temperature: -63 C in 1947. A near-empty settlement at the Alaska border - a place already built for the end of the world.
May 23, 2026
TRADES & HARDCOVERS
23May
Trade paperbacks and hardcovers now print through BookVault - regionally, in Winnipeg, the U.S., or the UK - cutting delivery times and shipping complications for readers.
May 18, 2026
THE TOE: THE YUKON STILL GETS THE LAST WORD
18May
The Sourtoe Cocktail is real: a mummified toe in a glass of Yukon Jack, served in Dawson City since 1973. In The Toe, the tradition survives the Collapse - and gets a story of its own.
May 13, 2026
THE COVERS
13May
Every cover for Warriors of the Last Days has been made in-house on a zero budget - and the tradeoff was honesty about tools, not quality. What making The Refusal's cover actually took.
April 30, 2026
KOBO: THE REFUSAL AVAILABLE NOW
30April
A milestone worth marking: The Refusal - Book I of Warriors of the Last Days - is live on Kobo and up for pre-order ahead of its May 2 launch. The first ebook edition of the series.
April 9, 2026
BUILDING A LIVING WORLD: ONE STORY AT A TIME
09April
A novel gives you a spine; a short story gives you breath. Starting now, one Warriors of the Last Days short story every month - same world, deeper texture, one place at a time.
April 9, 2026
PEKWACHNAMAYKOSKWASKWAYPINWANIK LAKE
Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake: 31 letters, the longest place name in Canada, Cree for where the wild trout are caught with hooks. A real Manitoba lake born to anchor a story.
April 9, 2026
FLIN FLON MANITOBA
Flin Flon is a mining town named after a fictional character - and the real geography beneath that oddity is exactly what makes it a natural home for a post-apocalyptic story.
April 4, 2026
MAKING EPUBS
04April
Vellum makes ePubs nearly frictionless - until you push past a standard novel. Where the tool shines, where it hits its ceiling, and how we format heavily visual short stories.
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.