Books are like boats.
Readers swim from one reading to the next, and some boats are more easy to access than others.
(I hear it often: How come my genius novel cannot find any readers? ) For my science fiction novels, I often add lexicons! But there are other ways to lower the bar for your readers, by shorter chapters, for instance, or not crowding too many characters in a scene, etc.
Your writer’s task is paradoxically to help your readers to get on board!
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The cover – Le gant (The glove).
My 17th novel and a bad cold (or flu) came together this week!
Summary: A bullied teenager, Julien, finds a solitary glove. Everything changes. For the better? A story about the subtle roots of power and corruption, in a mid-high school setting.
So no complicated comic today. Yesterday snapshot: author down with cold and some guilt from not even being able to read.
Our bicolor lady cat has very irregular white markings on her fur. And she always nestles where I would put my legs!
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Yes, we do watch the X-Files !
The Resolution Run is an annual event by organized by the Running Room. They hold bi-weekly runs open to every one, and in winter it is better to run in a group, because of the danger of falling on ice.
There was not much snow at the 2015 RR, but half-melted, darkened snowpacks were abundant. Despite what the comic may let you think, there were crews presents, cheering us at various points on the 5-km route, so no “dark” places.
It was a good run with the moon peeking through the branches, ominous and magnificent.
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Yes, a heat record for the Toronto area! The winter solstice has changed…
December 22, 2015 in BD, Comics, Event, humor, sciences
Tagged art, Climate change, Comics, gardening, humor, winter solstice
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Thanks to my fellow colleague Yves Bourgelas for the anecdote!
Those mishaps happen, from time to time, when the place is packed full.
And my calendar is packed, hence the delay!
A signed book is a treasure. I buy a lot of books from my fellows SF writers!
(This blunder really happened: I’m known for my absent-mindedness, but no book was harmed nor thrown on the floor in the telling of this event.)
FYI: Yves Meynard is also a Tor Books published author.
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This slight mishap happened at the end of a long day…
My colleagues are respected writers, Philippe-Aubert Côté wrote Le Jeu du Demiurge, and Yves Meynard has published The Book of Knights and Chrysanthe at Tor Books.
My own science-fiction book, L’Écologie d’Odi, and my 16th novel, received an enthusiastic review. It is the first time that I write a story in a shared universe.
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Tagged Ecologie d'Odi, Philippe-Aubert Côté, Science-fiction, Shared universe, Tor books, Writing, YA science-fiction, Yves Meynard
One bookfair coming and the launch of my 16th novel… don’t leave a lot of free time to draw signing table gags!
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New engagements and events conspired to keep me from adding new pages on this blog. This fall had deadlines falling along with the leaves.
More to come, for I will be signing my new science fiction novel at the Montréal Bookfair.
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Echoes of a Sunday artist 