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Coming Soon in Toronto… and Asimov’s!

Rose du désert, my YA SF novel, is finalist at the 2025 Trillium Awards! The intrigue is set on the same world and starts some time after the events in Le Secret de Paloma. It features an autistic spectrum heroine with a pessimistic temper, an attitude illustrated on the cover.

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The awards will be given soon,on June 18th in the Toronto Reference Library, at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon.

Whether my book places or not, it is a wondrous occasion to meet fine Ontario Writers like in 2013 (article on my French blog). Meeting Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander (2007), Ridgerunner (2020) and other books, was my favorite award!

Meeting Gil Adamson in 2013!

Meanwhile…

Another Gardeners’ Universe story is coming in the July-August 2025 issue of Asimov’s. It will be my seventh publication in this magazine.

The July/August 2025 issue will hit the newsstands on June 8, 2025, with my novelette In the gardener’s Services, set in my SF universe. That story will explore the past of one of my favorite characters in the YA series La Quête de Chaaas.

You can also subscribe to Asimov’s Science Fiction in print or in various digital formats.


Rose du désert, éditions David, 350 pages.

The Sunday Artist is a proud 2013 Trillium Award finalist!

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My YA novel Mica, fille de Transyl is a 2013 Trillium Award finalist!

Organised by the Ontario Media Development Corporation, the Trillium awards reward literary excellency in Ontario.

The OMDC supports the province’s creative economy by providing innovative programs, services and funding for the film & television; book & magazine publishing; interactive digital media & music industries.

Moreover, this year, two of the three YA novels belong to the spec-fic genre (outright science fiction for me, anticipation for my colleague Daniel Marchildon). The third novel is in a more familiar crime story genre.

So, as I predicted, SF is finally rising as an acceptable literary genre. It has taken a long undergroung toil and 14 SF novels from my part, to get to see this.

Here, a pic ofthe three Trillium Finalists… at the opening of the Timmins first book fair in April 2008|
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From left to right: Daniel Marchildon, Claude Forand, Michèle Laframboise, happily signing together!