Marie Bilodeau's Blog

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 the continuing insanity there! This place will remain as an inactive archive. Enjoy!

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 story! Launching on the new Radish app, which is *also* launching that day (I'm a launch author! Yay!), this serialized story is fun, mayhem, magic and battle in a post-war landscape. In other

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 lovely reviews and even became a finalist in the Aurora Awards (woo!). Fast forward to 2015, when a new cutting edge publishing company, Radish, approached me (and other cool writers like Linda Poitevin) to

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 will be an omnibus edition, released fall of 2016. But it won't have the pretty extra art, nor will it be hard cover. Let your book sense guide you to the edition that's right for you! NIGH Book 2

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 ones! There will be ghosts, and carnivals, and owls and, um, I haven't figured out my set yet. But it'll be cool! Storytelling should be every hour, so come on out, enjoy the pumpkin carving and

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 citizens: what shall I bring? Do we need our own band aids? A change of clothes? To sign a waiver? Well, here are your answers: BRING ONLY YOURSELVES! I've also received questions on the rules.

*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 her blog with a few questions. Simple questions, she said. Easy questions. Nothing to worry about. Not at all. I’m not nervous. Not at all. *eep* What’s your current project? That’s…that’s it? Wow

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 Hellmaw realm and already written, will be coming out in February 2016! Hellmaw is a dark world, where ruthless daemons stalk our streets, seeing humanity as little more than cattle. And then, there's

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 believe that. I'm thankful for writing because of the worlds it opens up to me, some with rolling hills ablaze with magic, others with distant star systems to explore. I'm thankful for the characters I

This is the little podcast that could (with lots of bad jokes)! Check out episode 15 today!