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Spooky Season Watchlist

October 2025

Welcome to October’s newsletter. If you showed up by accident but want to receive monthly content, please subscribe below:

In this month’s newsletter, scroll down to find:

  • The Road So Far…
  • Podcast: Spooky Season highlights
  • Captain’s Log: Birthday in Barbados
  • Review Corner

Updates

French translation of Queen’s Catacombs worldwide release: November 26th, 2025

Pre-order your copy here.

Slow Burn Books Author Market

Queendom Come is taking over!

Not really, but I’m just so blown away with all the bookstores she’s sitting pretty in! Here are a few I’ve found or people have sent me in the last couple of months. If you see her out and about, or even perched on your own bookshelf, I love to see it! So keep those pictures coming!

Indigo, Calgary
Fourpoints Books, Invermere
Indigo, Edmonton
Cafe Books, Canmore
Whyte Museum Bookshop, Banff

Author Nook

Welcome to my Author Nook, a monthly podcast I created where I chat with authors about their upcoming releases and we nerd out over their literary brain children. Find it on Spotify here, and Youtube here.

As you know, I release episodes once a month with no set date so the best way to stay in the loop is to follow and subscribe on either Youtube or Spotify. Also, if you want to read ahead, here is our next read.

November

Feast and Famine: The Last Great Heir by Carina Finn

Spooky Season Highlights

October is the best month (and not just because it’s my birth month). Something about being cozy and the promise of spooky fun is so magical. The range of the season is incredible, and I’ve been fortunate enough to chat with authors about a range of their cozy/spooky/autumnal novels. So regardless of whether you’re interested in Disney-level spook, or Stephen King ah!‘s, I’m sure I’ve got an episode that will tickle your fancy. Here are a few highlights for those who love…

Horoscope killers
Evil fairies
Murder mysteries
Supernatural bullies
Ghosties: evil and benign
Death buildings
When monster hunters kiss
Eldritch horrors
Ghosts and grief

And if you’re wanting a listen for your commute, each episode is also available on my Spotify channel Author Nook with Jordan H. Bartlett.

Captain’s Log

Birthday in Barbados

Gotta say, it’s pretty magical getting older in paradise. Up here in Canada, the weather is getting colder and colder so having one last romp in the sun was a dream. We went swimming, cave exploring, rum tasting, garden wandering, fish fry dancing, and so much more! I definitely came away with a new appreciation for the colour blue. Check out her range:

Review Corner

Reviews are so helpful in getting word of Contest of Queens, Queen’s Catacombs , and Queendom Come out there. If you have time, and if you’ve read the book, I would be eternally grateful if you could leave a star rating and/or a written review on Goodreads or Amazon.

Thank you to all the wonderful people who have left a star rating or review!

x live magically

Murder she wrote: author panel with Terry Friedman and Marcy McCreary

February 2024

Happy love month one and all! Welcome to February’s newsletter. If you showed up by accident but want to receive monthly content, please subscribe below:

In this month’s newsletter, scroll down to find:

  • Bookbub feature and free ebook deal
  • Queens on tour
  • Podcast: Author Nook
  • Captain’s Log: Snow Way!
  • Review Corner

Bookbub Feature

Bookbub has chosen Contest of Queens as their feature title this month and are offering the eBook for free from February 28th to March 5th! Click here for your copy.

Queens on tour

For all of you who are unaware, Queen’s Catacombs comes out on paperback March 12, 2024! This is very exciting if you’re a person like me because paperbacks fit much better in purses, and then they all match on your shelf just so. In celebration, I’m going on a bit of a tour across four towns/cities so if you’re in the area and would like a paperback copy, some free swag, or to show your support, please come on down and say hi!

Canmore – Fireside chat with local authors at Canmore Public Library
February 13th at 6:30pm

Banff – Author night at Banff Public Library
March 8th at 7:30pm
Also, from February 20th – March 8th we’ll be running a colouring competition thought Banff Public Library, so get your submissions in before the draw on March 8th!

Calgary – Author signing at Slowburn Books
March 13th at noon

Invermere – Author signing at Four Points Books – date TBD
Collaboration with Invermere public library and highschool.
March 1st at noon

Podcast: Author Nook

Welcome to my Author Nook, a monthly podcast I created where I chat with authors about their upcoming releases and we nerd out over their literary brain children.

I have an exciting announcement to make! I finally sat down and figured out how to get my podcast on Spotify, so all past and all future episodes will feature on both platforms. Listen in! If you have a minute to rate and follow, please do as it really helps!

Confused about the name change? Well Spotify had a thousand Book Nook named Podcasts so I figured this would make it easier to find.

Today, in the month of love, I’m joined by not one, but two incredible authors to talk all about murder! So lock the door, turn on all the lights, and huddle under the covers with me as we discuss murder most foul with Terry S. Friedman, author of Bone Pendant Girls and Marcy McCreary, author of The Murder of Madison Garcia. Click below to watch:


Beware the Fisherman.

Andi Wyndham has communicated with spirits since she was a kid. When a bone pendant carved into the likeness of a girl’s face calls to her at a gem show in Pennsylvania, she can’t resist buying it and a sister piece. When she discovers the girls are missing runaways and the pendants are made of human bone, Andi is drawn into a mystery that will force her to confront her gifts, her guilt, and the ghosts haunting her.

Pendant Girls Mariah and Bennie urge Andi to find a man they call “Fisherman,” a master of disguise. Teaming up with a handsome private eye and a South Carolina sheriff, Andi must find the girls’ bodies and put their souls to rest, before the Fisherman casts his deadly net to trap Andi.


Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free—it gets you killed.

Detective Susan Ford notices a missed call on her phone from a number she doesn’t recognize, and when Madison Garcia, a woman with past ties to the town of Monticello, New York, is found stabbed to death the next morning, Susan realizes that Madison was the one who had called her. But why?

Susan teams up with her father, retired Detective Will Ford, to find the killer, and their investigation soon threatens to uncover Madison’s family secrets—an inheritance, accidental death, money laundering, extramarital affairs, and family rivalries, just to name a few—and they don’t appreciate the Fords digging into their business.

As the investigation twists and turns, the Fords discover that Madison was planning to confess to a long-kept secret, but someone brutally silenced her. Everyone she knew is a suspect. Anyone could be her killer.

Captain’s Log

Snow Way!

This part of the year in Canada is a time I usually dread because it’s the coldest, grimmest, darkest part. HOWEVER, thanks to El Nino and climate change it has been unseasonably warm! We had snow, then lost it, now we have it again. While usually February sees me huddling indoors, I’ve been lucky enough to take advantage of the white stuff. I bought a new set of cross country skis and tested my mettle out in Kananaskis, and skated the WhiteWay in Invermere (all 12km of it).

I hope wherever you are that you’re cozy!

Review Corner

Reviews are so helpful in getting word of Contest of Queens and Queen’s Catacombs out there. If you have time, and if you’ve read the book, I would be eternally grateful if you could leave a star rating and/or a written review on Goodreads or Amazon.

Thank you to all the wonderful people who have left a star rating or review!

x live magically