Comments on: “Don’t Stop Believing”

By: Chaos Calling wins 2025 Canadian Book Club Award

Chaos Calling wins 2025 Canadian Book Club Award — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:03:53 +0000

[…] she says. “I started The Xenthian Cycle twelve years ago on a hope and a dream. I wrote standing up on the subway using my phone, I carved precious minutes out of my day job and duties as a parent, and I found supportive […]

By: Writing Heroes: Ursula K. Le Guin - E.M. Williams - Fantasy Author

Writing Heroes: Ursula K. Le Guin - E.M. Williams - Fantasy Author — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:19:55 +0000

[…] paper that became my TedxTalk on why we need new stories about female superheroes. That paper led to my work on The Xenthian Cycle when I realized I wanted to address the problems I’d identified through my own writing. […]

By: Returning for Big Magic - E.M. Williams - Fantasy Author

Returning for Big Magic - E.M. Williams - Fantasy Author — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:41:55 +0000

[…] first time I read Liz Gilbert’s Big Magic, I was finishing Chaos Calling’s first draft (which turned out to be a skeletal draft of the whole Xenthian […]

By: Why I have a rare ARC of Elantris, Brandon Sanderson's first novel - E.M. Williams - Fantasy Author

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:43:49 +0000

[…] paper that became my TedxTalk on why we need new stories about female superheroes. That paper later led to my work on The Xenthian Cycle when I realized I wanted to address the problems I’d identified in my writing. […]

By: Kirkus profile on Canadian fantasy author E. M. Williams - E.M. Williams - Fantasy Author

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:21:23 +0000

[…] believing my creative dream of writing a book had died was a terrible […]

By: Behind the Post: 'Don't Stop Believing' - E.M. Williams - Fantasy Author

Behind the Post: 'Don't Stop Believing' - E.M. Williams - Fantasy Author — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:30:18 +0000

[…] taking you behind the post for my essay about how I stopped believing I would ever finish a […]