Hello,
Now that you’ve seen the Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers Book Trailer, check out the Music Video.
I’m super proud of Jen for composing this song and performing it. She rocks! (Literally)
Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers is available everywhere books are sold. Find it in your local bookstore with 49th Shelf.
Stay safe and be kind,
Éric
I found this site that allows for any picture to be transformed into a digital puzzle. For free. And you can play for free.
So I obviously IMMEDIATELY uploaded the cover of Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers. I mean, wouldn’t you want to do a puzzle of an awesome book cover?
You would?
How fortuitous!
Aassassins! Accidental Matchmakers is available for pre-order now! Get it locally (49th shelf helps you find the local stores that have it available), through Indigo, or through Amazon (Canada, US, and International all have it, I can’t link to them all, I’m sorry but it’s really easy to find!).
Hello Readers and book lovers,
The typesetting for Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers has started. This is the first version called an Advanced Reader Copy that will go to reviewers and people who will blurb the book.
One of the perks of being with a smaller press and being a professional typesetter (AKA: Internal Layout Artist) is that they let me do the insides.
I’m really excited for this book and I can’t wait to share it with everyone… Unfortunately, unless you’re getting an ARC, you’ll have to wait until September.
We have a lot of different things planned for promotion. The first will be creating new social media accounts.
Stay tuned for the saga or the 38 year old trying to figure out social media that isn’t fifteen to twenty years old. (Google+ is still a thing right?)
Éric
Hello JenEric Fans,
With Dragon doing full digital school, we’ve decided to move things around a little. Here’s the schedule for the foreseeable future.
Éric Desmarais will randomly write things like an unspecified number of monkeys with typewriters… which is totally not how he writes his posts… *Shifty Eyes* EDIT: Please send bananas.
Guitar Lessons Jen is learning guitar and her journey is quite a lot of fun to follow. Certainly a Major Scaled accomplishment.
The Travelling TARDIS will continue it’s adventures in space, time, and backlogs.
JenEric Movie Reviews continues to watch movies, over-analyse them, and tell you all about it.
The monkeys Éric returns with serial stories, regular stories, rants, coffee info, and really whatever comes out of the typewriters… uhm mind, his mind.
Unless 2021 ends up being as movie watching heavy as 2020, these will be left blank and let the monkeys, time machine, and musicians rest.
Hope you enjoy it!
JenEric Designs Management
Hello JenEric Readers,
This year we’re making changes to the schedule of posts. Here’s what’s going to happen:
Éric Desmarais will randomly write things like an unspecified number of monkeys with typewriters… which is totally not how he writes his posts… *Shifty Eyes*
How I Taught My Dragon will post the results of the previous week with all the cute pictures of Dragon learning.
The Travelling TARDIS will continue it’s adventures in space, time, and backlogs.
How I Taught My Dragon will post the plan for the next week of Draconic (but rarely draconian) learning.
The monkeys Éric returns with serial stories, regular stories, rants, coffee info, and really whatever comes out of the typewriters… uhm mind, his mind.
JenEric Movie Reviews continues to watch movies, over-analyse them, and tell you all about it.
Unless 2021 ends up being as movie watching heavy as 2020, this will be left blank and let the monkeys, time machine, and Dragon rest.
Looks like another exciting year for JenEric Designs. Hope you enjoy it!
JenEric Designs Management
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We attended Renaissance Press’s multi-author book launch recently, and brought the TARDIS for photo-ops with the authors and their brand new books.
What I *should* have done was ask the author which (if any) of their characters would run off with the Doctor. In this case, I’m going to ask now, as he is sitting in a chair ten feet away.
“I think the most likely would be Megan or Ajay, but I could definitely see Abigail doing it too.”
Learn about Éric and buy his book here! (And come see him at Can-Con this weekend!)
Author and friend Talia C Johnson wrote about queer and trans sensitivity editing here. You should go read that.
Sensitivity editors can be hired for race, religion, gender, sexuality, chronic illnesses, mental disorders, physical disabilities, among others.
Sensitivity editing is not limiting authors, but allowing them to write about experiences that are not their own.
Yes, we should have more published works by diverse authors. I am not arguing against that.
But I definitely feel that character diversity within a book will only improve it, if it is done properly.
One of my favourite book series growing up was The Bobbsey Twins. This was written in the early 1900’s, to give you context if you’re unfamiliar with the books. The main characters were two sets of twins that solved mysteries. They had servants, named Sam and Dinah, who spoke with an accent and were…well, what a white person thought a black person was like.
The books have been re-written since the original. I have both versions, and the differences aren’t really visible, at least where Sam and Dinah are concerned. A sensitivity editor would change how these characters are portrayed, fix the language chosen to describe the characters and how they speak, and remove the tropes and stereotypes.
The old saying of “write what you know” is limiting, and frankly, boring. If my husband, Eric Desmarais, only wrote what he knew, the three books that he has published wouldn’t have female protagonists. (They also wouldn’t be set in fantasy…)
Sensitivity editors let authors expand their worlds without misrepresentation. Take Cait Gordon, for example. By her own words, she is allo cis-het (allosexual, cis-gender, heterosexual), but she writes fantastic stories about aliens, who are as diverse as can be. My favourite characters of hers are two gay lizard-like aliens that are amazing, and will have their own story soon in The Stealth Lovers. You can bet that she had a sensitivity editor; Talia C Johnson.
So please, write about anything you want. But if it’s outside your personal experiences, get a sensitivity editor. They are worth their weight in gold.
https://taliacjohnson.ca/services/queertrans-sensitivity-editing/
https://www.dotanddashllc.com/single-post/2018/03/15/What-Is-Sensitivity-Reading
https://lithub.com/on-the-use-of-sensitivity-readers-in-publishing/
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Hello My Imaginary Friends,
As I mentioned I have a book and a story that’s eligible for Aurora nominations. If you like The Travelling TARDIS, Fandom Travel, Parasomnia, or Database of the Ageless Kings, please go nominate them. The deadline is this Saturday May 26th.
The Aurora Awards are awards, “for excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy works and activities.” They are administered by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.
It’s a fan voted award in the vein of the Hugo’s, but with way more awesome people.
You’ll have to join the CSFFA for a pittance of $10 before you can nominate anyone. Once you’ve paid, you can nominate 5 works in each category. You can nominate works from now until May 26th.
The extra bonus of joining the CSFFA is you’ll get a voters package that includes most of the works that make the ballot. That’s 8-10 novels plus a bunch of other awesome stuff.
My second novel Parasomnia is eligible in the the novel category:
Last year’s serial story is also eligible Database of Ageless Kings.
Jen is eligible for Fandom Travel and The Travelling TARDIS in this category.
This year I’m only recommending things I’ve read, participated in, or watched.
Go Nominate Works and enjoy the amazing science fiction and fantasy that came out last year.
Éric
