It’s official. I’ve got a Kirkus profile! Their digital site has published a piece on me and the writing of Chaos Calling: Book I of The Xenthian Cycle. It’s part of a campaign I’m running to celebrate the novel’s wider release. You can read the full article, “E. M. Williams Invests in Herself to Write […]
The Thinking About Podcast invited me to talk about my writing life and being a self-published author. I was thrilled to be asked. The wonderful Kirsti McNabney hosts this show, which gets her audience thinking about interesting topics. We recorded the episode back in November 2022, but it aired February 7, 2023. Here’s where you […]
First volume in The Xenthian Cycle now a #1 Hot New Release TORONTO (June 27, 2022) — E. M. Williams has published Chaos Calling: Book I of The Xenthian Cycle on Amazon as a paperback. Set in contemporary Toronto, the series juxtaposes modern-day careers and parenthood demands with the dynamic action of a superhero film. In keeping with that choice, […]
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 […]
I originally wrote this post on Medium in 2015. I remember being excited that some ‘important’ Twitter accounts engaged with it. I’ve left the references to the manuscript that would eventually become Chaos Calling as-is. Once upon a time, I wrote a post assessing the pros and cons of the Wattpad platform for aspiring writers on my […]