Next Author Event!!! Calling all those who love fantasy, science fiction, & horror... Check out @canconsffh.bsky.social Oct 16-18 in Ottawa at the Brookstreet hotel - Panels, workshops, and more. You can also find some great books, including my dark fantasy trilogy, Reflections of Shadow! ✍️📚🗡🍂

Mercutio, by @kateheartfield.com, is so wonderfully weird! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The book somehow manages to effortlessly weave historical events and some of the world's best, most magical stories into something beautiful and terrifying but strangely plausible. I am so happy that I picked this one up! 📚🙂

The Eastern Ontario Writers' Festival draws near, on 19/09/26. I'll be on the panel "Illuminating the Dark: On Weaving Light and Shadow in Fiction Across Genres"! If you are attending and want to pick up copies of my books at the event, check out beventi.co/orderform/ak... to pre-order today! ✍️📚😀

This video voices a truth that has been irking me for a while. It explores actual beauty vs. temporary standards of aestetics and the destructive role that modern villifying of beauty (confusing it with those temporary standards) is playing... youtu.be/vQ5Zq5XSHKI?...

Ugliness Is Oppression - The Deliberate Destruction of Beauty

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Ready to geek out? FANATICCON OTTAWA today!!! 18 July 2026, at the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre from 11 to 4 for general admission. Be sure to check it out and stop by my table, where I'll have my dark fantasy trilogy, Reflections of Shadow available. 👾🎮🎬📚

New book review! Finished The Symbiot Trilogy by Michel Weatherall, published by Broken Keys Publishing in Ottawa. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I LOVED these books. Weatherall weaves Lovecraftian chills in an intricate plot that straddles horror and sci-fi in techno-occult vibes. #lovecraftian #horror #review 👾📚

Only one week to go!!! @fanaticconottawa 18 July, 11-4. I'll be there with my dark fantasy trilogy, Reflections of Shadow. Hope to see you there! #fantasy #books #Canadian 🗡📚🙂🤓

Calling all comic book and fantasy nerds! Orleans Comic Book & Novelty Show Tomorrow (Sun, 28 Jun 2026) from 11-5 at the Place D'Orleans shopping mall. Come find me at table 90 and grab a copy of my dark fantasy trilogy, Reflections of Shadow. 🗡📚

I know folks are deep into ⚽️ excitement right now, but if any of you are also fantasy readers by chance and live in the National capital Region, do come by tomorrow (13 June) and check out my book launch for SYZYGY REVEALED! 🗡📚 11-4 at Re-Read Used Books in Riverside South, with a Q&A at 12pm

SYZYGY REVEALED book launch at Re-Read Used Books, June 13th, 2026. Hope to see you there! 📚🚀 😀 www.facebook.com/share/1FdwsY...

Books on Tap event!!! If anyone in the Ottawa area likes 📚 and 🍺, come on by Beyond the Pale Centre Taproom and Brewery this Sunday, 31 May 2026, 1-4PM.

Book Review for #BookSky! A great collection from talented Ottawa authors, published by Broken Keys Publishing & Press. Lovely, unsettling tales feeding one's dark appetite for horror... "Shattered Places: Fragments From The Never," in particular, hooked me, giving cool techno-occult vibes! 📚💙

For those looking for a great new #fantasy read, check out NEMESIS SPAWNED, WORLDS SUNDERED, and SYZYGY REVEALED. A dark psychological #fantasy 📚 trilogy that follows a demigod across multiple worlds in incarnations as an antihero, hero, and villain . . .

Some upcoming author events!! #Canadian #fantasy #author

Just finished RISE OF THE RAT by Jason Barnes. This book plays beautifully with the best high fantasy from my childhood. It breathes new life into them and imbues them with exquisite darkness, bloodshed, and atmospheric horror... I can't wait for the rest of the series!!! #booksky #fantasy 💙📚

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT!!!! 📚🚀 I'm excited to announce the official book launch event for SYZYGY REVEALED, Reflections of Shadow: Book Three, published by @friesenpress.bsky.social Please save the date and join me at Re-Read Used Books in Riverside South on 13 June, 2026, 11-3. #fantasy 🥳🇨🇦📚🚀

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Keep the Party Going! – SYZYGY REVEALED Spotify Playlist!

Like I did with NEMESIS SPAWNED and WORLDS SUNDERED, I’ve created another dark and explosive soundtrack for SYZYGY REVEALED, in the form of a Spotify playlist (see embedded link below). I tried to …

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So exciting! My third #fantasy #novel is available on the FriesenPress website now, with other retailers to follow shortly! books.friesenpress.com/store/title/...

Not long now... Book three in the Reflections of Shadow trilogy soon to be available from FriesenPress! #fantasy #trilogy #Canadian books.friesenpress.com/store/title/...

Syzygy Revealed at the FriesenPress Bookstore

Convergence. The dark threads of fate are drawing the greatest powers in the universe towards an inevitable and explosive conjunction. Alexander Cadeyrn returns to the world after decades in exile. ...

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New character images! jameswlackie.com/2026/03/22/r...

Reflections of Shadow – NEW Character Profile Cards

Anticipating the forthcoming release of SYZYGY REVEALED, the third and final book in the Reflections of Shadow trilogy, I have updated my character images . . . I have updated Raven Maireen, the be…

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Looks like both my first books are on sale on Amazon.ca right now: www.amazon.ca/Nemesis-Spaw... & www.amazon.ca/Worlds-Sunde... Pick them up in advance of the release of SYZYGY REVEALED! #fantasy #trilogy #Canadian #author

New cover reveal!!! Reflections of Shadow book three: SYZYGY REVEALED #fantasy #trilogy #coverreveal 📚🗡

Just tore through these four books in the Riven Realm series by @deckmatthews.bsky.social ... and now I have to wait patiently for the next. Masterful, epic fantasy storytelling. I truly recommend picking these up if you can. You won't regret it. 📚💙

Just a reminder that the human animal is complex and layered. We can never erase the deepest parts of ourselves... our shadow selves. No matter what values we paint onto our society, they will endure. Instead of purity testing, let's embrace rewarding the best in us while accepting the flaws.

If you are in Ottawa and want to get out of the cold 🥶, come by the Robert Plante Greenhouses for their Winter Market. 9-4 today (Sunday, Jan 25th). I'll be there with my #fantasy books, Nemesis Spawned & Worlds Sundered. Hope to see you there! 📚😀

Crazy good deal on the second book in my Reflections of Shadow #fantasy trilogy, WORLDS SUNDERED, on Amazon.ca www.amazon.ca/Worlds-Sunde... If you are looking for something #dark and #epic with a lot of vivid characters, this is for you!

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Worlds Sundered: Lackie, James W: 9781038344625: Books - Amazon.ca

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Looking for something dark and epic to read this holiday season? Check out the Reflections of Shadow fantasy trilogy. Nemesis Spawned & Worlds Sundered are available now! #fantasy #trilogy #DarkFantasy #Epic

Dark is absolutely one of my all-time favourite shows. Glad I'm not alone in that. ⏳️📺🤯 www.howtogeek.com/dont-watch-s...

Forget Stranger Things—this other Netflix sci-fi thriller is smarter and darker

A thrilling sci-fi gem on Netflix that's a smarter, darker, and a better watch than Stranger Things.

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Absolutely bonkers low price for WORLDS SUNDERED (Reflections of Shadow Book Two) on Amazon right now. Under $20. Perfect for the holiday season!!! www.amazon.ca/Worlds-Sunde...

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Worlds Sundered: Lackie, James W: 9781038344625: Books - Amazon.ca

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Fun video interviewing some authors @canconsffh.bsky.social in October, including yours truly! 😀📚 youtu.be/gHaEtTlCWuE?...

THE CAN*CON EXPERIENCE 2025 - D.G. VALDRON TALKS TO WRITERS.

YouTube video by The Attic, with D.G. Valdron

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