News

2024-07-05
🏅 BOOK AWARD NEWS: 
River of Crows has been shortlisted for the 2024 international Rubery Book Award!

2024-05-14
🎙️ RADIO INTERVIEW: I was interviewed on CBC’s All in a Day radio show to talk book awards, characters, and lots more!

2024-04-04
🏅 BOOK AWARD NEWS: 
River of Crows has won the Silver Medal in the international Wishing Shelf Book Awards!

2023-09-16
🏅 BOOK AWARD NEWS:  River of Crows was just listed as a finalist in the 2023 Canadian Book Club Awards. Winners will be announced in December.

Why I Pulled My Books From Kindle

CW: This post is a bit of rant. Feel free to skip it unless you want the details. The tl;dr is that you can no longer get my ebooks on Kindle (but paperbacks are still available on Amazon, for now) because I'm tired of AI and megacorp overreach, and I'm especially...

Please Vote for My Books!

I recently learned that three of my Arcanium books (River of Crows, Mirror of Wolves, and Stone of Serpents) have all been nominated for multiple Indie Ink Awards! The Indie Ink Awards are a combined readers' choice and judged competition and I need your help to get...

Book 4 Cover Teaser

And the countdown is on! The cover and title reveal for book 4 will drop next week, on August 5th on Bluesky (but newsletter subscribers and Ko-Fi members will get to see it early, this Saturday). In the meantime, here's a quick teaser for you: The book will launch in...
Pre-Launch Promos!

Pre-Launch Promos!

In just a a few short weeks now, Stone of Serpents will be out! On top of that, we're also coming up to the River of Crows second anniversary and the Mirror of Wolves first anniversary, too. So, in light of all these milestones all happening around the same time, I'm...

River of Crows wins Silver Medal

River of Crows wins Silver Medal

The big news of the day is that River of Crows has just been listed as a 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Silver Medal Winner in the "Books for 9-12 year-olds" category, and I'm celebrating with a sale! For a limited time you can get the ebook for only 99 cents. This is just...

River of Crows book award news

River of Crows book award news

I'm knee-deep in last-minute prep work for the upcoming book 3 launch (more details on that coming soon!), so this is just going to be a super-quick update to let everyone know that I got an exciting email very early this morning letting me know that River of Crows has...

Canadian Book Club Awards News!

I overslept this morning and woke up to an email telling me River of Crows is a finalist in the 2023 Canadian Book Club Awards! What an exciting way to start the weekend! 😄 The Canadian Book Club Awards (CBCA) is Canada's...

River of Crows Nominated for an Award!

So… I have some big book news that I can finally share with you today! A few weeks ago I got a very exciting email from the good folks over at Cybils.com informing me that River of Crows has been nominated by a member of...

Mirror of Wolves Now at OPL!

Just a quick post to let everyone know that Mirror of Wolves is now available at the Ottawa Public Library in both paperback and ebook formats. Check it out today and find out what Ty and #TeamArcania are up to this time!...

My First Author Interview!

With the recent announcement about River of Crows being listed as a finalist in the Canadian Book Club Awards, publicity stuff is starting to pick up and I recently did some author interviews for the very first time, which...
A stack of paperback books showcasing the cover for Mirror of Wolves.
Mirror of Wolves Now at OPL!

Mirror of Wolves Now at OPL!

Just a quick post to let everyone know that Mirror of Wolves is now available at the Ottawa Public Library in both...

Book 3 Title and Cover Reveal

Book 3 Title and Cover Reveal

It's the end of Canadian Children's Book Week, so I think it's only fitting that this should be the day to share two really...