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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

2 minute excerpt from the interview with Akosua Yeboah for MET radio (Toronto Metropolitan University’s radio program) full interview : www.metradio.ca/show/all-my-books July 8th, 1pm, at the 30 minute mark. LAVENDER SPIKE is a cyberpunk dystopian in which art is both drug and religion.

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nice surprise yesterday for Lavender Spike’s two-week mark in the world to be tagged in this post by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec (on Facebook). Way to go Quebec! 🥰 💜💙🩷 readquebec.ca/june-2026-re... @ecwpress.bsky.social

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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In her #dystopian #cyberpunk #ScienceFiction novel "Lavender Spike," author Rachel Tremblay presents a world in which, "Art has become the new religion and the new drug." And that's just the beginning. To learn more, check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🖌️🎨

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Exclusive Interview: "Lavender Spike" Author Rachel Tremblay

Exclusive Interview: "Lavender Spike" Author Rachel Tremblay \ In which she talks about this dystopian cyberpunk science fiction novel.

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I got interviewed by the wonderful Dionne at CBC for the show All in a Weekend for my book Lavender Spike! Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I heard a hermit thrush (or two, calling each other) in the woods today and I got excited because I recognized it. It’s the second time I hear one and it’s officially my favourite sound in the whole world. Totally see myself becoming an old lady bird nut. (For reference) youtu.be/FdQIlyuJYPk

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Hermit Thrush Song

YouTube video by Lesley the Bird Nerd

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today is the day! She’s out in the world! Go grab your copy! Leave a review! Tell your friends! Support the arts and f*ck A.i ! Love you!

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

🎧 AUDIOBOOK NEWS 🎧 We have an audiobook my friends! Narrated by ELANA DUNKELMAN @elanadunk.bsky.social Releasing JUNE 23rd Look for it everywhere you listen to your audiobooks! 🫶🏼✨ @ecwpress.bsky.social @jenralbert.bsky.social #cyberpunk #dystopian #socialjustice #artworldly #stendhal

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

LAVENDER SPIKE Book launch was lovely 💜 Thank you @neuvel.net , @jenralbert.bsky.social , @ecwpress.bsky.social , and Paragraphe Bookstore. 11 days to pub day!!

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

LAVENDER SPIKE Goodreads Giveaway @ecwpress.bsky.social For Canada and USA 20 copies 🩵🩷💜

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Oh my Stars… 7 years after starting it, Lavender Spike’s pub date is 1.5 months away 💜

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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 03/05/2026

If you loved Pluribus, buy my book, it's basically reverse Pluribus. If you loved Sense8, buy my book, it's Sense8 with the connection dialed up to 11. If you loved Sleeping Giants, ... you are awesome. I don't remember what I was talking about. Baaa maaa baaak. neuvel.net/books/the-ma...

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The Many – Sylvain Neuvel

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Preordered your copy yet? LAVENDER SPIKE was hailed by Publishers Weekly as: “gritty and relentless…” “an adventure that is twisty, cathartic, and extremely fast-paced…” “there’s no denying its originality. Replete with mind-bending thrills and chills, this proves hard to look away from.”

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

LAVENDER SPIKE might give you a buzz 🔥 Going to see Unprocessed tomorrow, with my son 🤘🏼🔥 families who rock together stay together ;)

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It’s @neuvel.net ‘s book launch tomorrow! Be there or be lamentably, awfully square!

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

BOOK LAUNCH for LAVENDER SPIKE! Hosted by Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net Author of the Themis Files and The Many There will be copies of Lavender Spike available to buy on site, book signing, and refreshments :) Come, bring your friends! We can’t wait to see you! 🥰 @ecwpress.bsky.social

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

LAVENDER SPIKE is Dystopian cyberpunk Mass addiction Mindf*ck art Found family Rebellion Troubled conscience MC Badass best friend Bad boy w/ a heart of gold Diverse + queer characters Comic relief villains TW V1olence Su1cide (aftermath and mention) Gore Addiction Open door 🌶️ Preorder now :)

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

They’re here!!! 🩷💜💙🩵 @ecwpress.bsky.social 🩷💜💙🩵 ecwpress.com/products/lav...

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hello gang! I’m going to finish the sharing of blurbs with an excerpt from Kirkus Reviews. Thank you for following this publication journey and I hope you preorder your copy of LAVENDER SPIKE! The book hits the shelves June 23rd ☀️ Published by the amazing @ecwpress.bsky.social

Kirkus says: “Pain, passions, and violence are conveyed as agonizingly and earnestly here as they were in the Hunger Games and Handmaid’s Tale cycles ...
Cautious brush strokes help sell this speculative story of art as the basis of a future police state.”

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"I'm you now. We all are" Next month, a stunning new scifi from @neuvel.net , author of SLEEPING GIANTS! The minds of five normal people merge in a beautiful, unnerving first contact story where the strangest thing humanity has to face is each other. Preorder now: geni.us/themany

A copy of Sylvain Neuvel's THE MANY against a purple fabric background dotted with crystal stars.

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Dear folx, I’m so happy to share this next blurb by the amazing Nathan Makaryk, actor and author of the most excellent, kick-ass Robin Hood retellings NOTTINGHAM and LIONHEARTS. 🔥 LAVENDER SPIKE is available for PREORDER now! Out June 23rd with @ecwpress.bsky.social 🩵

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Squee!! Another blurb, this one by the fabulous @kaylaancrum.bsky.social She’s rocked my world since The Wicker King and I love reading everything she writes. Her new book ADAM, MINE. is out this September! LAVENDER SPIKE is up for preorder now, out June 23rd with @ecwpress.bsky.social 💙

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

LAVENDER SPIKE up for preorder now! Out June 23rd 2026 with @ecwpress.bsky.social 🔥 🎨 ♥️

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Here is the blurb for LAVENDER SPIKE by @kmcbridewrites.bsky.social , Algonquin Anishnaabe storyteller & artist from the Timiskaming First Nation, author of CROW WINTER. Keep an eye out for her upcoming book JIIBAY! 😍 LAVENDER SPIKE is up for PREORDER! Out June 23rd with @ecwpress.bsky.social

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

💜 LAVENDER SPIKE TROPES 💜 LAVENDER SPIKE is available for preorder, you can add it to Goodreads / Storygraph, and request it from NetGalley. OUT JUNE 23rd with @ecwpress.bsky.social I hope everyone is keeping their head up and fighting the good fight and staying healthy, safe, and hopeful.

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

💜 LAVENDER SPIKE is a retro-futuristic, post-apocalyptic cyberpunk dystopian with elements of sci-fi, horror, romance, and touches of comedy. You can now preorder, add to Goodreads / Storygraph, and/or request LS from Netgalley 🙌 Releasing June 23rd with @ecwpress.bsky.social Thank you!! 🫶🏼

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Dear folx, I’m so excited to share this first blurb for Lavender Spike by bestselling author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social I was unalived and came back to life when I read it. I’m so incredibly grateful! LAVENDER SPIKE is available for preorder now! Coming out June 23rd with @ecwpress.bsky.social

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🎨 THE PAINTING, THE BOOK COVER 📕 LAVENDER SPIKE is a cyberpunk dystopian in which art is both drug and religion. Makes sense the cover would be painted eh! Makes sense it would be me who did it! 🙌 Check out my artwork on Instagram at @swell_rachelle Out June 23rd with @ecwpress.bsky.social ! 🎨🔥

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’m so happy to finally share the cover for my upcoming book LAVENDER SPIKE, a cyberpunk dystopian with the premise of art as drug, religion, and police state. LAVENDER SPIKE releases June 23rd 2026 with @ecwpress.bsky.social and is now available for PREORDER Art by me, design by Jess Albert 🎨🔥♥️

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Dystopian cyberpunk novels are BACK and we've got @racheltremblay.bsky.social's fervent defense of art to prove it. Introducing Lavender Spike and Izzy, last working artist of the Old Holy Order, arriving June 23, 2026 from @ecwpress.bsky.social!

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Revealing Lavender Spike by Rachel Tremblay - Reactor

A cyberpunk novel arriving June 2026

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

LAVENDER SPIKE Coming April 2026 With @ecwpress.bsky.social The 6 month countdown has started….

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Lavender Spike Teaser! Coming April 2026 With @ecwpress.bsky.social In this cyberpunk novel where art is both drug and religion, Isobel “Izzy” Ker becomes an elite artist of the oppressive governmental regime while secretly fanning the flames of the coming rebellion. 🔥

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Fall, Winter, then LAVENDER SPIKE, a cyberpunk novel where art is both drug and religion… I can’t wait to share this story with you all 🥹❤️ April 14th, 2026 with @ecwpress.bsky.social

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

LAVENDER SPIKE is an art-centric cyberpunk coming April 14th 2026 with @ecwpress.bsky.social 🍁 If you would like the Hunger Games, Mad Max, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Fifth Element to have a book baby, this one is for you. STAY TUNED for cover reveal & pre-orders 😍

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Spotted today on “weird sh*t I’m researching for my book”: “Perhaps even more disturbing than an exploding whale is falling into a decomposing whale. One scientist warned that playing too close to a dead whale might result in a chest-deep swim through liquefied innards, which would require rescue.”

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music” is the most entertaining thing I’ve watched in a hella long time 🔥 @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Dear folx, my first week of revisions is coming to an end! I’m working with a deadline which, for the first time ever, isn’t self-imposed. It’s scary and exciting! Anyway, I wanted to share that LAVENDER SPIKE has a new pub date: April 14th, 2026! A spring baby 🌱 That’s it! Take care out there✌🏼

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It’s been an adjustment but it’s going so well. I love my little potato.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #14151: You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.

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Rachel(le) Tremblay | author @racheltremblay.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Trope graphics for my books published so far. I can’t wait to make one for Lavender Spike! (There is a short synopsis for each in the alt text)

Lone wolf coffee-slinger and accidental oneironaut Edie Stacks has her life turned upside down by reality-altering lucid dreams, and space cats!

Edie is a broke but happy thirty-year-old with too many one-dollar Phil Collins records, a perfect circadian rhythm, and big trust issues. She lives on her own terms, keeping everyone at an emotional arm’s length. Plagued with insomnolence after having moved into a new home, strange circumstances provide her the sleep she yearns for, but also vivid dreams that meddle with her waking life. Using her dreamscapades to create a situation that appeals to her, she realizes that she does not have the control she wants. In fact, she’s making a mess of everything. To make matters worse, she’s adopted aliens and they have no intention of leaving. Somehow Edie is stuck with the mission to save Earth from extraterrestrial world domination. And here she thought she was just minding her own business. Surprise!

About 30 years before Off My Feet. Four 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 sinister…
Boy, were they wrong! The tragicomedy that started it all!

Set in the 90’s when people didn’t have cell phones, smoked in bars, and punk rock was thriving. Carlie, a wild, twenty-five year old drifter moves back to her parents’ after surviving a traumatic accident. Back home, she starts seeing things she doesn’t understand, and the feelings that come with them are overwhelmingly blissful. When chasing the source of her new joy starts to pull her closer to death, she must find a way to harness this power that makes her feel so alive.

Under the rule of the terrible Murx, where mirthlings show false kindness out of duty and live out terrifically absurd pre-ordained callings in permanent joylessness, our ill-fitting heroine Topaz trades her stifling life for the most surreal of portals, orbiglass worlds and fantastic friends, discovering her true origins and inherent powers on her path to attain the silver-peaked mountain where she believes happiness awaits her. There and back again, Topaz battles with herself as she faces the challenges of friendship, deceit and loss, until with a little magic and a lot of heart she comes to love the mirthlings she once despised, inadvertently emerging as the one destined to return balance to all the worlds.

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