A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaTRADES & HARDCOVERS NOW AVAILABLE The first book in the series, The Refusal, depicts a desolate post-nuclear landscape. TRADES & HARDCOVERS Now Available Through BookVault We’ve partnered with BookVault to handle the printing and fulfillment of Warriors of the Last Days trade paperbacks and hardcovers. This allows us to offer professionally printed editions with streamlined ordering...
The Toe: a Sourtoe Cocktail fiction The world of Warriors of the Last Days is post-nuclear Canada. The Collapse took the banks, the governments, the infrastructure, and most of what people had built their lives around. What it didn’t take, what it couldn’t take, were the things people held onto because letting go wasn’t an option. The Sourdough Saloon in Dawson City is still...
The Covers That Weren’t Supposed to Look Like This Table of Contents The Covers That Weren't Supposed to Look Like This The Starting Point Problem What the Tool Cannot Do The Process Nobody Talks About The Back Cover What the Physical Object Does The Honest Assessment Every book needs a cover. That much is simple. What nobody tells you is how many decisions are hiding inside that one...
Kobo: The Refusal now available Table of Contents Kobo: The Refusal now available Kobo: It's Happening! The Refusal is Now Available for Pre-Order A Milestone Worth Marking A Long Road Where and How to Get It Kobo: It’s Happening! The Refusal is Now Available for Pre-Order Some announcements feel bigger than others. This is one of them. The Refusal — Book I of the Warriors of the Last...
WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS SHORT STORIES A novel gives you a spine. A short story gives you breath. Starting now, the Warriors of the Last Days universe expands with a new rhythm: one short story every month. Not side content. Not extras. These are pieces of the same world: fragments that deepen it, contradict it, and sometimes quietly reshape what you thought you understood. Where It Begins The...
MAKING EPUBS: WHERE GREAT TOOLS MEET REAL CREATIVE LIMITS MY VELLUM IMPRESSIONS Creating an ePub today is both easier than ever and more constrained than it should be. On one side, you have tools like Vellum that make the process almost frictionless. On the other, you quickly hit a ceiling the moment you try to do anything beyond a “standard novel.” This post breaks down that tension from real...
What 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.