Happy Tuesday!
Today is also a special day because it’s COVER REVEAL DAY for THE ACCIDENTAL COLLECTION by J.M. Frey. THE ACCIDENTAL COLLECTION is, well, a collection of bonus content from The Accidental Turn series by J.M. Frey! There’s also an exclusive novella included!
Before we show you the cover, J.M. wrote a letter to you, her fans, and we’re sharing it here. It’s okay if you tear up a little, we did, too.
More than anything else, The Accidental Turn Series had been my love letter to the community within which I took my first stumbling, shaky steps as a writer – fandom. I found fandom in 1987 when my family gathered around the television to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. I was hooked, and my parents got me the fan club magazine, and took me to my first convention in Drayton Ontario in the early 90s. When the Internet became a thing, I found not only fansites for every show I loved, but also stories! Not just the tie-in novels, which I had begun to spend all of my allowance on, but lots and lots of stories written by other people like me – fans who just loved something enough to turn that love into a creation to share with other fans. I wrote my first fanfic in 1991 for a little known Canadian children’s TV show called Dracula: the series, and from that moment, was hooked. I was going to conventions every other month, making cosplays, and forming incredible friendships with my fellow fans.
I was always a storyteller – I was a child actor, and have parleyed that into a degree in theatre, some voice acting gigs, and my screenwriting. So it felt important to me to write a novel about the power of fandom, the joy and pitfalls of the community I loved, and the incredible things that fans can do when they band together and put their minds to it. To find now that my stories have fans of their own? That there is fan art, and fan fiction, and comics, and even cosplayers out there finding community and connection, and their own voice through my work? It’s stunning. It’s incredible. It’s humbling.
So thank you, thank you, thank you for being on this journey with me. Thank you for loving Forsyth, and Pip, and Kintyre, and Bevel as much as I do. Thank you for letting my words inspire your own. Thank you for your support, and for your reviews and blog posts, and for being here with me as this series finally reaches its conclusion.
I hope you love the last cover – and the magic is invokes – as much as I do.
And don’t forget, while The Accidental Turn Series may be ending, there is another series soaring over the horizon soon! Yes, my steampunk adventure-romance novel The Skylark’s Song, about a vigilante and her rocketpack trying to end a decade-long war by whatever means necessary, is touching down on September 4th 2018! Look for more announcements and keep up to date with what’s happening via my monthly newsletter.
BONUS! Do you remember Forsyth’s song for Alis from THE FORGOTTEN TALE? Now you can hear it! Click here, and get to experience it yourself!
One more thing…you can pre-order your copy of THE ACCIDENTAL COLLECTION!
Okay, now it’s time for the cover!
Isn’t it beautiful?
