Claudie Arseneault's Blog

Hello friends, 

There is now a simple online guestbook where you may share memories and stories of Corey Alexander. You will find it here. 

I am hosting the link here so that we may have something a little more permanent than social media. It is nothing fancy, in truth, but it is what I found that was free, did not make claims to any content posted, or demand information I either did not want to input, or did not have at all. 

Regardless, it is less the format than the content that matters. P...

Hello everyone!

It has certainly been a while since any official news have come from me. I’d love to act like it was all meant to cultivate a mysterious aura around all my awesome projects, but truly, “is this happening at all?” isn’t exactly the aura I’d aim for! 2019 has been a strange year for me. I have been well, for the most part! I have, however, stepped back from a lot of my current creative project, to do something different and unrelated, which has done wonders to replenish the...

It’s been a while since I last hosted an author interview, but today I have the pleasure of welcoming Leigh Hellman, the amazingly articulate author of Orbit, a YA sci-fi novel released by Snowy Wings Publishing. I’m always thrilled to host fellow ace authors. Get settled in, this discussion is one of the most interesting I’ve ever had.

It’s coming! I will keep the explanation short, but here:

It’s almost entirely ready, but the cellphone on which my untransferred pictures (I know) were died, taking them all with it. This means I have to redo every recipe in the book to take new pictures, and while that is only 5 of them, bread-making can spread over an entire day. I am back at work on weekdays, and with the recent heatwave, it would have been cruel to run the oven too much.

Temperatures should break down soon. I will do my...

The Baker Thief Pre-order Campaign is A-Go!

I am incredibly excited to say, my latest novel is finally on sale!! So what more can you get if you buy it ahead of time?

A discounted price! Baker Thief will be only $2.99 for as long as it’s in pre-orders! An unique cookbook (PDF) with five recipes for bread and pastries, including delicious, buttery croissants! My eternal gratitude. Seriously, thank you for buying, and I hope you enjoy!

Buy it now on Amazon, Other Major Retailers, or Gumroad!...

Every queer person has a different path to discovering or understanding their IDs, and many of these are shaped by who we are as a person. It’s not a surprise, then, how much writing has played a part into my identifying as aromantic.

It started with Claude, and it wasn’t conscious. As I’ve said yesterday, there was a fair amount of time during which I suspected I was aromantic but didn’t want to explore it, and had rather conflicting feelings about it (most of them rooted in internalized ant...

“Sometimes I think I want to be with someone, but it never lasts. It’s… like a flicker—a few days of intense pining for romance, and then it’s gone. Does that ever happen to you?”

So… the above is a small excerpt from Baker Thief. It’s also the closest thing I’ve written to my aromanticism. It’s still not exactly mine, but… closer, you know? I’ve never really talked at length about where I fit on the aromantic spectrum. For a while I used “grayro” as an ID in my bios and twitter conversations...

My small indie collective of amazing queer SFF writers has put together an awesome Sales/Party to celebrate its first anniversary!

From January 26th to February 1st, 19 indie authors have put their awesome stories with queer heroes on sale. And what’s more, we put together a personality quiz to let you see which of our queer heroes you are! You can learn more here.

For today, I am hosting one of the 19 authors, Austin Chant, whom I’ve had the pleasure to read this month! I may have been smit...

Back in January I wrote a blog post about the relationship in fiction between asexuality and death. To my surprise, it really took off and started a lot of amazing discussions, and over the course of the year I have had the opportunity to revise and deepen my thoughts on the subject. So this post is an occasion to revisit the topic, and to clarify the ideas. You’ll note a TL;DR at the end of each section, which summarizes the information in easier chunks. I also put links to the works discuss...

The last seven posts don’t quite cover all the ace rep I have written, and certainly not all I have in mind. I wanted to present a few more characters I have that will eventually make it into my stories, or that will have their rep made canon later down the line. I’m sure by the time I get around to all that, there will be even more!

1. Larryn and Gray-Aceness

Larryn is one of those characters I haven’t talked about much yet, at least in term of aceness and sexuality. It’s just… there’s alrea...