๐ Itโs been 6 months since my twins have hit the shelves! To celebrate, Iโm hosting a giveaway on Instagram. Head over there if youโd like to play! ๐๐ผ @racheltremblaybooks ๐ค๐ผ
BLURBS! โขโขโขโขโขโขโข OMF: Lone wolf coffee-slinger and accidental oneironaut Edie Stacks has her life turned upside down by reality-altering lucid dreams, and space cats! Off My Feet is a Neverwhere-meets-Inception psychedelic chronicle of female experience where trust is learned the hard way, the hard knocks of life are explored, and love and friendship are pushed to their limits. Watch Edie make a mess of everything! Shit gets weird! โขโขโขโขโขโขโข CK: About 30 years before Off My Feet. Five women share an apartment and Friday nights. Wine and creativity keep them well entertained and always on the brink of trouble. One doomful evening, an alien craft lands onto their building and brings mystifyingly charming creatures into their lives. Creatures they would never have suspected were sinisterโฆ Boy, were they wrong! Read the Tragicomedy that started it all! โขโขโขโขโขโขโข
โข 2 0 2 0 โข W R I T I N G โข โฃ Hey! Howโs it goinโ? Good I hope! โฃ Rare and twisty writing recap /update: โฃ On the 16th itโll be Off My Feet and Crash Kittyโs twin 6 month anniversary. (Just like with our babies we count in months at first). I published them this June! Time flies! Days slip by like (something clever) on a banana peel. Seriously, gimme something clever to put in those brackets. โฃ I applaud those who have done #Nanowrimo this year, whether they attained their goal or not. โฃ I did it last year, first time and last, tyvm. I had rushed to finish the first draft of a dystopian novel so I could try the โNansโ (Iโm calling it that. Fuck it.) December 2019 comes, i put the Nans project aside and I start editing said dystopian. Then I received Crash Kitty from my editor. So I stopped editing and gave CK a last sweep, sent those with OMF as ARCS to my amazing sci-fi kitty team, and then decided to edit my Nans project โDead Gretchenโ instead of going back to the dystopian. Whiplash yet? Lol. And so Iโve been editing DG all ๐๐ผ fekking ๐๐ผ year ๐๐ผ. I still am, 6-7 days a week. Iโm halfway through what should teeechnically be my โlastโ big edit. โฃ Iโm an indie author, but Iโll be querying DG. While I query, Iโll be editing the dystopianโa stranger to me now. Iโm very excited. And so, I feel like my work is a pile of worms, everything overlapping and intertwining soft and swift. Whereโs the tail? Whereโs the head? Itโs bananas and itโs also fun. โฃ Thatโs my sort of cumulative writing update since November last year. If you read this far and can make sense of this mess, free hug for you!!!! โฃ If youโre a writer of the wordsโHowโs your writing year going? I hope itโs going good. โฃ ๐Bisous (little kisses) my friends! Thanks for being awesome ๐ค
โโฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ง๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต. ๐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด: ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ข. ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง, ๐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ด๐ด ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ, ๐ข๐ต ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ, ๐จ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐โ๐ฎ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ค๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ.โ โฃ OFF MY FEET excerpt ๐ (Go here for blurb and synopsis!) โฃ Itโs soooo hard choosing a quote from my own books. Something solid enough on its own and that wonโt spoil anythingโฆ I spent way too much time trying to find something for you, I settled for kisses ๐๐๐ โฃ ๐โ๐จ Letโs talk kissy scenes. In what book have you come across your favourite? Which ones gave you butterflies? โฃ โฃ ๐ค โฃ Hope youโre having a good day, being kind, keeping an inner eye out for implicit biases and weeding them out. Itโs a work of awareness and itโs constant and scary but also intensely satisfying. Growing hurts but itโs still the very best thing for us and the world we live in. โฃ ๐ค
โ๏ธ Yesterday was the publishing day for my twin releases – OFF MY FEET & CRASH KITTY.
I am not very disciplined with my blog posts here. You will mostly find me on Instgram (@racheltremblaybooks for books and @swell_rachelle for art)
But, I will try to do better. For now, this is my news, my excitement of the moment. Share with me and grab some copies! You can read about them here: OMF or here CK
You can also check the photos below for the blurbs on the back of the books, as well as a blurb written by the amazing Sylvain Neuvel (author of the Themis Files), and on instagram (@racheltremblaybooks) you check my highlights called OMF for some early reviews ๐๐ฝ
I hope these books can bring a bit of entertainment into your lives.
๐ธ Also: instagram photo challenge!
Whoever posts pics of both books on instagram (and tags me, so I know they did) over the summer will be entered into a draw to win a space cat candle like you see here, a book-inspired bookmark and stickers that I will show soon, and 2 signed bookplates. I hope you play!
(I realize mail is slow for many so the deadline for the challenge will be August 31st)
Hello hello!! So happy to share the covers for my upcoming novels OFF MY FEET & CRASH KITTY, twin releases sneaking into your tbr on June 16th!
Check OMF & CK pages pre-order links! and yes the sizes match with the Topaz paperback too!
๐ข๐ ๐ is the story of Edie stacks, an accidental oneironaut (dream explorer) with trust issues, a love of free plants and cheap records, and a serious alien problem. Watch Edie shape reality with lucid dreams and make a mess of everything.
Expect: Cussing, realness, psychedelic dreams scenes, Phil Collins, and hotness (not with Phil Collins.) Also, cats.
๐๐ is a prequel novella to be read afterwards, though really itโs up to you. This story happens 30 years prior, one where we learn about the arrival of the aliens and the lives of four women and the ridiculous trouble they get into on a particularly creative, inebriated night. Shit gets dark, but itโs a hella fun ride first.
Expect: giggles, bad ideas, a bit of gore, John Mayer, and some hotness (not with John Mayer). Also some emotional shit. And cats.
All ages quirky dystopian high fantasy quest ๐๐ฝ
Dear friends, Topaz is now available in paperback! Itโs exactly the same as the hardcover on the inside โ map, moth pages, glossary โ and itโs available everywhere online ! Voilร !! Tis done and iโm happy that this option is out there now!
โOur first day traveling down the river ended. There was a sense of anticipation in the air, a hint of the importance of what was to come. Burma yanked at a blanket with his teeth. I took it from him and pulled it up over our snuggled bodies. Fiddling through my slingbags, I found some dried fruit, which we ate while staring expectantly for the moments when the trees would open above us and allow us to see the immense beauty of the night sky, its brilliant starlight showering the eventide with charm. Every time the trees closed up again, our eyelids drooped a little more, until they shut.โ
Anticipation can keep us going sometimes when we hit a lull. What are some things youโre looking forward to before then end of the year? ๐ค
Iโm looking forward to watching my kids dance in the nutcracker, finishing editing my new novel, finding a new apartment to live in that has a yard (and hopefully a brick wall!)
“The sunlight gently lit up the orb from the inside, just as a candle is used to kindle another. He sighed with pleasure and passed me the little pygmy globe. I cupped my palms, surprised by the offering, and held it like a fragile, soft-shelled queepfluff egg. It was heavy and warm, and throbbed with a tiny pulse that vibrated gently through its crystal wall.โ
โYouโd think that youโd think before climbing into a car with random idiots.โ
โYa, I get it, Damien. I didnโt think. I messed up .ย .ย . again.โ
The opening scene of the Nirvana Threads was inspired by my experience, once upon a time, hitchhiking in British Columbia, Canada. The driver was playing chicken on the highway with random cars from the opposite lane. I remember thinking: โthis might be how Iโm going to dieโ and clutching the side of my seat and mentally calling on God to do his will. Although I donโt outright mention itโs chicken theyโre playing in the car in TNT, the picture is still painted. I hope you give it a read!!
and yes the sizes match with the Topaz 
