A book cover isn't design - it's positioning, decided at thumbnail size in a fraction of a second. The lessons that actually moved the needle on our in-house covers.
March 31, 2026
BOOK COVERS LESSONS
31March
March 30, 2026
LAUNCHING!
30March
After years of development, detours, and rewrites, Warriors of the Last Days Book I: The Refusal is ready. ISBNs received, formats locked, and the digital-first launch begins.
March 16, 2026
ISBN DELAYS
16March
Our ISBNs are late - well past the government's published timeline - and for an independent publisher mid-launch, that administrative delay has very real consequences.
March 6, 2026
MONTRÉAL
06March
The journey begins in Montreal: a city transformed by water, ash, and the machinery of the old world. The first stop in a broken Canada explored one city at a time.
March 4, 2026
THE FEELING OF BEING READY
04March
There's a specific feeling in the body when a manuscript is nearly done. The Lullaby - a song for the last days - is complete, and the end of Book One is finally in sight.
February 25, 2026
READ BEFORE ANYONE ELSE
25February
Montreal is gone; what grew in its place shouldn't exist. All four books are written, and before the first one hits retailers, the ARC program is putting early copies in readers' hands.
February 21, 2026
WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS COVER REVEAL
21February
The cover of The Refusal: a young woman wading through a flooded tunnel, something two-headed rising behind her. The first look at the series - and what the image had to get right.
February 20, 2026
POST-APOCALYPTIC LULLABY
20February
The Lullaby of the Last Days is a three‑minute video of AI‑generated imagery and music by Alana Jordan that emerged while searching for a teaser track. It tells of Louise, Una’s dying mother, singing tenderly to her daughter amid a ruined Montreal, embodying the series’ emotional core of the tetralogy of quiet love and resilience.
February 20, 2026
BEHIND THE TEASER OF The Last Protocol
The Last Protocol teaser was created as a hybrid of live‑action footage and AI‑generated imagery, preserving the prologue’s hollow inevitability. Without a film crew, the creator used motion graphics, music, and carefully chosen visuals to convey a world whose ending is not spectacle but silent collapse, inviting viewers to feel the story’s true beginning.
February 16, 2026
FORGING THE SPARK TEASER
16February
The team behind Warriors of the Last Days struggled to craft the teaser for Book IV, The Spark, fearing it would explode instead of building fire. Through revisions, shifting visuals and music, and killing ideas, they let pressure speak. The finished teaser captured the novel’s theme: change arrives not with a bang but with accumulating heat.
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.