TL;DR for the impatient: Vocal Media launched a $10k fantasy prologue challenge last month. I’ve entered. You’ll find my submission, “The Adamantime Heist,” on their website. What’s Vocal? Here’s the backstory Based in New Jersey, Vocal is a competitor to Wattpad in the digital publishing space. Both companies share a similar goal: to build a […]
Amazon release kicks off the The Xenthian Cycle, a fantasy action series set in Toronto TORONTO (May 31, 2022) — Today, E. M. Williams publishes Chaos Calling: Book I of The Xenthian Cycle on Amazon as an ebook. Set in contemporary Toronto, the series juxtaposes modern-day careers and parenthood demands with the dynamic action of […]
The final trailer for Chaos Calling: Book 1 of The Xenthian Cycle is ready. It’s posted on my YouTube channel. If you missed the first trailer, you can find that here. The ebook edition of my first novel launches one week from today. I started this project in September 2014. I remember standing in my […]
Were you at the Raptors’ victory parade in June 2019? I was. That morning, I traveled downtown by TTC with my children and my parents. We decided not to go to Nathan Phillips Square at the end of the route, figuring the crowds would be largest there (and we were correct). Instead, we found a […]
I’m thrilled to announce that my Chaos Calling Book Trailer #1 is available on Youtube! Update: The final trailer is also available here! Why did you make a book trailer? First, book trailers have been a necessary part of marketing new novels and series for the last decade. Video has been king ever since YouTube […]
May the Fourth Be With You to all those who celebrate. Every time this date rolls around, I wish a friend of mine a happy birthday. Usually that same morning, I wonder how the whole Star Wars thing started for George Lucas. Was there a shred of inspiration that caught him by the throat and […]
I’m taking you behind the post for my essay about how I stopped believing I would ever finish a book. It was originally published on Medium, and it’s been in my head ever since I finished the first draft of Chaos Calling. Time does funny things to your worst days. From where I sit now […]
Ten years ago, I stopped believing I would finish writing a novel. And I have never been so wrong. Editor’s note about “Don’t Stop Believing”: I originally published this essay on Medium. But their analytics are getting increasingly weird, so I’m giving it a permanent home here. * * * It was raining that night. […]
Pre-Launch Campaign: Week 1 Chaos Calling: Book 1 of the Xenthian Cycle has been live on Amazon for just over a week. Like any self-published author, I hoped you would be excited to see the book’s cover and title. I also hoped some of you would pre-order a copy. I had zero expectations for what […]
Editor’s note: Pitching my books as a film or TV project was been on my bucket list for years. In 2020, I got a chance to do it. Here’s what I learned pitching Netflix. It’s late July 2020. We’re six months into the pandemic. Vacations are on hold. I’ve finished the substantive draft of Chaos […]