I *loved* blogger and all that it's done to help grow my career since 2007. But, with too many books and not enough pages, I moved over to www.mariebilodeau.com, with a brand new site. Come join ...
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Gluck is coming to romance you this WITH DEATH AND MAYHEM this Valentine's Day! See this adorable little radish? Gluck would eat it. But Alara would hug it. See? So much tension potential in this...
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Back in 2011, I sold a short story to Ed Greenwood and Gabrielle Harbowy for their When the Hero Comes Home anthology by Dragon Moon Press. The story was well received, garnering some lovel...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2016/01/announcing-return-of-gluck.html
The hardcover edition of Nigh 2 is now available! Complete with gorgeous art from cover artist Kerri Elizabeth Gerow, this is an edition not to be missed! For those of you who asked - there...
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Cute picture by v-collins on Deviant Art! I'm going back to Pinhey's Point on Sunday, from 11-4, to tell scary stories! Audience appropriate scary stories, so yes, you can bring your little...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/10/halloween-stories-on-sunday.html
WARNING: I SCREAM AT YOU IN THIS POST AND I DO NO APOLOGIZE. Back by popular demand, the paper airplane contest shall once more wreak havoc upon CAN-CON. I've been asked mutliple questions by cit...
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*Editorial note included at end of post.* Hi! I’m KT Bryski—Canadian fantasy author and podcaster and writing comrade of the ever-lovely and talented Marie Bilodeau. She’s welcomed me to he...
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I'm super thrilled to announce that I'm part of the The Ed Greenwood Group (TEGG), a revolutionary publishing venture by the creator of Forgotten Realms himself! My first book, set in his new Hel...
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I'm thankful for writing today, on Thanksgiving Day. So many memes on Facebook say that writing is like pulling out your own eyes and eating them (along those lines, anyway), but I don't be...
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This is the little podcast that could (with lots of bad jokes)! Check out episode 15 today!
This year, during Ottawa's Nuit Blanche, I get to be a book! At the Human Library!!! I don't think I've been this excited since I sold my first book! It's tomorrow night (Saturday the...
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We're already at episode 14 of Planet X Podcast! Time flies by! Thanks to everyone here who's been following along with the podcast. Jay Odjick, Ken Bonnie and myself appreciate it...
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The last post on lessons learned from writing Nigh is up over at Black Gate Magazine! I talk writing and cookies. (The two most important component of serializing a novel.) Cookie Mon...
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Last week was slow for geek news, so Jay Odjick, Ken Bonnie and I chatted writing over at Planet X Podcast! Check it out if you'd like some inspiration or ideas! The second half of the epis...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/chatting-about-writing-over-at-planet-x.html
Check out my Black Gate post where I chat about numbers, business and Power Rangers. (All very important factors in serializing your own novel.) Strike a pose. It's Serious Morphing Time.
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-great-serialization-experiment-part.html
I'm late with yesterday's post because I took the weekend off. I actually took it off, without work or social media, not even writing. I went to visit some friends I've been meaning to spen...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-good-are-you-at-hustling.html
I've had the pleasure of performing in several shows with Nicole Lavigne, including at an Arthurian legends show at the Tea Party. We had a lot of fun preparing our stories, and agreed that we co...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/announcing-wizard-and-dragon.html
Are you thinking of serializing your own novel? I'm sharing some of my thoughts and experiences from serializing Nigh, from why I did it, to some technical lessons, and of course the most i...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/serialization-part-1-of-3.html
Continuing on our little impromptu series, here's the perspective of an upcoming writer. Nicole Lavigne is very active in the community and she's hardworking and very ambitious. Keep an eye out f...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/guest-post-whats-in-name-changing.html
Following my blarghing about female authors hiding their gender in pseudonyms, I wanted to get some different thoughts on the whole thing. I invited Sheena McNeil, Editrix-in-...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/guest-post-names-have-power.html
We judge gender, ethnicity, even the style of the book and writing just by looking at the author's name. This is nothing new - it's not like humanity is known for its non-judgmental ways. There a...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/yes-people-suck-what-are-you-gonna-do.html
Life isn't an adventure. It's an experiment. A glorious experiment, with more variables than can be controlled, too little time to try even a pinch of the possibilities, and so many deviations th...
http://mariebilodeau.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-year-later-im-still-standing-mostly.html
Join some fun and sun on Sunday, August 9, and come out and hear some stories! I'll tell some pioneering, seafaring and generally Canadian-ing stories, all with flair and fun and twists, of...
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This coming Saturday (July 25), I'll have the pleasure of being *everywhere!* Well, in two places, anyway. I'll start the day at the inaugural Limestone Genre Expo, in Kingston, Ontario.&nb...
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It was with great concern that I read this seemingly innocuous article: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/revamped-bubble-wrap-no-longer-pop-able-2015-07-02. Great concern. &n...
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