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Born in Northern Ontario, E. M. Williams has written all her life. Chaos Calling: Book I of The Xenthian Cycle is her first published novel.

In 2012, she gave a TedxTalk on women, superheroes and power. Originally intended to make her past scholarship work more accessible to a wider audience, it inadvertently supercharged her writing.

E. M. Williams is a member of the Writer’s Union of Canada and the Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association. She currently lives with her family in Toronto, where she works in the technology sector.

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Chaos Calling is a 2025 Canadian Book Club Awards finalist in Sci-fi/Fantasy

The Canadian Book Club Awards (CBCA), the country’s largest readers’ choice award, has announced the finalists for its 2025 awards.

Eighteen books competed in the fantasy category this year.

Chaos Calling: Book I of The Xenthian Cycle, by E. M. Williams, is among the three fantasy finalists advancing to the final voting round.

Winners will be announced in February 2026.

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Content warnings: Grief, death of an adult child (on page) I enjoyed Seventhblade by Tonia Laird--it's a 4.5 for me, rounded up for GR's rating system. I loved the world building. The secondary fantasy setting has a post-colonial lens informed by ...more
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Ah, the Bridgertons. Every time the show comes back, I get the urge to read another book and this time was no different (Season 4 starts this week). When He Was Wicked is Francesca's story (sixth child, third daughter). She's the family introvert ...more
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An extraordinary (and indirect) extension to a concept first presented in Alix E. Harrow's searing short story, The Six Deaths of the Saint , The Everlasting is both her novel-length expansion of that idea and a raging indictment of our presen ...more
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E.M. Williams and 1 other person liked Rebecca Lim's blog post: Fury - reissued with its 10th anniversary cover " To celebrate its belated 10th anniversary, Fury has been reissued in paperback and ebook with a beautiful new cover by Megan Ellis. Available now. For those readers who've been searching in vain for it in paperback, so thrilled to share thi..." Read more of this blog post »
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I liked Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki a lot (a 4.25 rounded up because of GR's rating system is a cudgel, not a knife). It combines a lot of disparate ideas in ways I found inventive: - the experience of being a trans girl - violin playi ...more
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