2018 | YEAR IN REVIEW
First of all, thank you everyone for an amazing year. I know it's not quite over yet, but we just surpassed a milestone: we doubled our...
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- Dec 20, 2018
- 3 min
THANK YOU ALL FOR A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH! | STORYTIME WITH KIT SORA
Holy Honey Hams! I don't even know where to start with any of this! About a year ago, an amazing local publishing company called Engen...
- Dec 18, 2018
- 2 min
4 WAYS TO BEAT THE WINTER WRITING BLAHS | HOUSE BLOG
I don't know if it's the darker days or the colder weather, but there's something about winter that makes me want to crawl under a pile...
- Dec 8, 2018
- 2 min
DORMANCY| KIT SORA'S STORYTIME
STORYTIME! Yes, that is snow, yes I am naked from the hips up, and yes, it was just as cold as you would think! That said, I did have...
- Nov 18, 2018
- 3 min
NANO LESSONS 2018 (SO FAR) | HOUSE BLOG
1. Writing every day is good. I’ve been doing a lot of editing lately, so I felt a bit rusty jumping back into novel writing. Pushing...
- Nov 18, 2018
- 2 min
WORLDBUILDING STEP #1: DESTROY THE WORLD!
It was early in the year 2000, and I was standing in my aunt's kitchen, trying to destroy the world. No, I wasn't having a premonition...
- Nov 6, 2018
- 2 min
ELIXER | KIT SORA'S STORY
May as well make this an annual thing, just wishing I had started it earlier! I literally had -no- idea what this week's photo was going...
- Oct 18, 2018
- 2 min
NANOPREPWEEK | HOUSE BLOG
The stars have aligned, Mercury is in retrograde*, and I’m prepping for NaNoWriMo! I say that because this will be the first year I’ve...
- Sep 19, 2018
- 2 min
TRUSTING YOUR BRAIN | HOUSE BLOG
Sometimes it seems like my brain knows more than it lets on. Even when I don't notice, it's back there - constantly churning out story...
- Aug 18, 2018
- 2 min
ZOMBIES ON THE ROCK: OUTBREAK BECOMES INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ON AMAZON!
Outbreak, the inaugural novel in Paul Carberry's post-apocalypse thriller series Zombies on the Rock, hit #1 on the Amazon.ca in the...
- Aug 18, 2018
- 2 min
CONVERSATIONS WITH AN UNFINISHED STORY | HOUSE BLOG
Story: Hey, you! What's up? Me: Oh, hi, Story. How've you been? It's been a while. Story: Yeah, I know. So... I've noticed that you...
- Jul 18, 2018
- 2 min
THE WEIRD HABITS OF WRITERS | HOUSE BLOG
And here we see the elusive ‘Writer’ in its natural habitat… Be careful – we don’t want to scare it off… Speaking for myself, I tend to...
- Jun 18, 2018
- 3 min
HOW TO BLACKMAIL YOURSELF INTO FINISHING YOUR WRITING | HOUSE BLOG
Maybe you're one of those writers who has no problem sitting down and writing a story from start to finish, or maybe you're more like me...
- May 18, 2018
- 2 min
12 HOURS | HOUSE BLOG
On Wednesday at 1pm, I sat down in front of my computer, opened up the latest draft of the novel I’m working on*, and got to work. Other...
- Apr 18, 2018
- 3 min
FLASH FICTION MEMORIES | HOUSE BLOG
Back when I was in University I didn’t have this thing called ‘Facebook’. No, I put off joining that for years (I still remember getting...
- Mar 18, 2018
- 1 min
CHILLERS FROM THE ROCK BECOMES AN AMAZON CANADIAN BESTSELLER IN 4 CATEGORIES!
Chillers from the Rock, the third volume in the modern From the Rock series, hit #1 Bestseller in 4 different categories on March 18,...
- Dec 31, 2017
- 4 min
2017 | YEAR IN REVIEW | ENGEN BOOKS
Well, out 10th Anniversary year has come and gone, and it has been a wild one. We've brought on new authors, continued existing...
- Nov 11, 2017
- 1 min
THE SYMBOL TO LOOK FOR FOR QUALITY- ENGEN UNIVERSE
As our titles expand through the end of our tenth year and beyond, both new and longtime readers have been left wondering: how do we...
- Sep 27, 2017
- 1 min
SUPERNATURAL CAUSES BECOMES A #1 BESTSELLER!
Going Viral, the inaugural episode of Amanda Labonté's medical thriller Supernatural Causes, hit #1 on the Amazon.ca in the 'Occult'...
- Sep 24, 2017
- 1 min
BLACK WOMB BECOMES A #1 SUPERHERO BESTSELLER ON AMAZON!
Black Womb, the original novel from Matthew LeDrew, has gained #1 Bestseller status on Amazon, in both the 'Superhero' and 'Coming of...
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