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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.

Chaos Calling, her first novel in The Xenthian Cycle, won the 2025 Canadian Book Club Award in SCI-FI/Fantasy (Feb 11, 2026).

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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I wrote the first three drafts of Chaos Calling on my phone using Wattpad while riding the TTC (Toronto's subway system) during my commute. It's amazing what you can accomplish in 20 minutes at regular intervals. I loved those moments of retreat and escape.

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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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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove”
― Christopher Marlowe, The Complete Plays and Poems

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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