Spring 2025 Books Cover Reveal Party

Come see my new book cover with us!

Renaissance Press is revealing two of its newest book covers: Mrs. Victoria buys a Brothel and Winging It on January 11 – TOMORROW.

There are tons of things happening, including readings, giveaways, and more.

You don’t want to miss out, so go to the YouTube link and select “notify me” because you do not want to miss this!

Saturday, January 11 at 1pm EST at youtube.com/live/he3Zpkgu07Q

Instagram Hop Cover Reveal Game

Renaissance Press has organized an Instagram hop to find pieces of the cover (art by @pinkpiggy93) for the queer YA urban/portal fantasy novel “Winging It”, the second book in the Lucky in Love series by @JenDesmaraisAuthor, published by @RenaissanceBookPress.

Starting Jan 6 and continuing through Jan 10, when you find a piece of the cover (12 in total) somewhere on social media, share it to your story and tag @renaissancebookpress for a chance to win an e-book of “Winging It”!

The virtual cover reveal party is happening NEXT Saturday, January 11 at 1pm EST at youtube.com/live/he3Zpkgu07Q, where the full cover will be revealed, alongside other spring books from Renaissance. Tune in for fun stuff, prizes, and more! (Note that you can go to the link, click “notify me” and it will send you a message when it’s about to go live!)

Instagrammers to follow to find the pieces:
@thebookishanimator_
@thebookarchive.ca
@bookspines.and.roses
@rivercitysirenpress
@stories_by_don
@kristophermielke
@journeytobiscovery
@pinkpiggy93
@thedylandrakes
@fadhilitheone
@dereknewmanstille
@talhibriones

CoverRevealWingingIt #CanadianAuthor #QueerAuthor

Crushing It cover reveal video

Crushing It

OMG I CAN FINALLY SHARE THIS!

Seriously, the first time I saw this cover was in SEPTEMBER.

On to the cover reveal:

The actors in this film are Dragon and Dragon’s friend. Pegasus attempted to assist.

They were given the task of completing an obstacle course similar to the one in the book. (Simplified, obviously, as these are not 14-15 year olds.)

The music was written by me (with heavy assistance from Bruce Gordon for the chords! I was so lost as to how to put chords to the tune in my head!), sung by me, and recorded by Éric.

Cover art by @pinkpiggy93 on Tumblr and Instagram

Crushing It by Jen Desmarais is available now!

Physical from Canadian indie bookstoresphysical from Indigo, electronic version

Life Moves Pretty Fast (Sometimes)

Hello My Imaginary Friends,

Last Monday, I complained about not being able to get my appointment for a Covid vaccine. I managed to get an appointment for end of June on Tuesday and then Thursday, as I was grocery shopping, I got a notification from the PC Health app that I could get one on Saturday.

So I went from thinking I’d never get one to being worried about getting one to getting one in less than a week. So one shot out of two. I guess we’re 1/8th of the way there for the family. Hopefully by Christmas we’ll be 6/8th.

Book stuff

Great news. Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers, book one in The Gates of Westmeath series, has been submitted to my publisher. We should hear within 3 or so months if they’ll publish it. If they don’t, we’ll start submitting to agents and other publishers. We can worry about that later.

I’m slowly writing Elizabeth 4 and have re-written the outline and hopefully it’ll be finished this decade. Planning for book two of The Gates of Westmeath, Gangs! Incidental Wedding Guests, is well underway. Writing will start end of summer/early fall.

The short story collection is over 80,000 words and I still have 2-4 stories to write. Jen’s been prolific in her short story writing. The collection is called Stories! The Unexpected First Collection.

Like I mentioned on Friday, this coming Saturday is the cover reveal for my newest book, Coffee Shop Between the ‘Verses. Come check it out on Saturday! There will be prizes and readings.

Stay safe and be kind,

Éric