DEAR FOLX, I’m so happy to finally share the cover for my upcoming book LAVENDER SPIKE !! This is my own oil painting combined with Jess Albert’s digital touch (Jess is the Digital & Art Director at ECW Press). The universe works in strange ways and I am so happy I ended up painting the artwork for my cover! I am super stoked with the cyberlicious result.
LAVENDER SPIKE releases June 23rd 2026 with ECW Press and is now available for PREORDER from your favourite bookstores and online book-selling platforms!
“Lavender Spike is that rarest thing in fiction: a truly unique dystopia, one that shuns simple allegory and plays by its own strange and fascinating set of rules. In a just world, everyone would be obsessed with this book and fans would already be having bitter arguments about who should be cast in the film.” ― Jason Pargin, bestselling author of John Dies at the End
Isobel “Izzy” Ker, the last working artist of the Old Holy Order, lives a life of poverty in the Dumps outside of Mahl City, covertly selling her illegal paintings to the Old Order’s few remaining devotees. But when her studio is ransacked by the city’s enforcers, her only choice is to seek refuge with the Half-Light Rebels, a gang of anti-art radicals and glorified thieves.
She agrees to help the rebels, but their first mission goes south, and Izzy is arrested and brought before the leader of the oppressive New Art Government, a group that keeps people in check by feeding their addiction to a novel and dangerous craft, Trigger Art. Izzy has a choice: Convert to their way of life, using her skills to debut as a Trigger Artist, or rot in the city’s infamous prison. Izzy accepts and is thrust into the spotlight, now intoxicated by the luxury and power afforded her, not to mention her handsome bodyguard, Rilke. The wild, engrossing act of creating her first public piece almost makes her forget what life was like in the Dumps. Almost. All the while, Izzy is fanning the flames of rebellion, working in secret with the rebels and preparing to unveil her audacious debut piece.
Lavender Spike is a bold, wholly original cyberpunk novel in which art is both drug and religion.
And take care of yourselves! 🙂
rachel(le) tremblay 