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Caroline Lavoie 🇨🇦
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YA speculative fiction writer. French-Canadian. She/Her. Small-time homesteader. 💔 19.01.2025-Brain cancer sucks. DEVIL BY THE TAIL (Deep Hearts YA) 2024. Lheidli T'enneh land/BC
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The French adaptation of my novel is sitting in a dozen editors’ inboxes right now, plus one hard-copy in transit. I should hear back anytime between a few weeks and never! 🤞

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Paperback copy of the YA paranormal novel Devil by the Tail sitting on top of a printed manuscript written in French.
August 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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I always wanted to translate my work into French, but I was always too lazy to do it. 😅 But finally, the deed is done and I’ve revised two chapters so far (and having fun!). I hold the translation rights, so I will try my luck with francophone publishers this fall.
Picture of a laptop with a Word document in French opened on chapter three. A paperback version of the English version of the YA novel Devil by the Tail rests on the keyboard.
July 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I’m on the strawberry diet. Happiness in every bite! 🌱
A brimming bowl of ruby red, garden fresh strawberries.
June 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Today’s soundtrack: wind chimes with a side of hungry raven fledglings. 🐦‍⬛🖤
June 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Going to the store for carrots on this fine spring day, in a snow storm, uphill both ways. The woods are windy and deep, and something is watching. 🌱
Snowy woods. Root cellar door cut into a hills in the woods. Bin with sand and carrots in it. Fuzzy brown and white border collie dog watching through the trees.
March 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I only managed to read one book so far this year, but I can already tell it will be one of my favourites of 2025. It’s a YA supernatural horror rooted in Indigenous culture, and it’s also about coping with grief for lost loved ones. This aspect of it spoke to me one a deep level. 📚💙
Book cover if the novel Beast, by Richard Van Camp. It features silvery swallows and a fiery chickadee flying against a smoky purple background.
March 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Dystopian/sci-fi nightmares are the worst! Thank goodness this fearsome goof was in there with me!
Close up of a long-haired, brown-and-white dog rolled onto its back, with a toy-bone with candy-corn patterns in its mouth.
March 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Sometimes you’re having a hard day and then something like this comes along. ☺️

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Except from a review for my book, which reads as follows: “Devil by the Tail is an enthralling and haunting read that will resonate with fans of supernatural fiction and those who appreciate a compelling exploration of the human heart.” Review by Jeyran Main in Book Review Magazine 2, Winter 2025.
February 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Grief was hitting hard this morning. Later, I went to get some firewood from the huge stack my husband made sure we had. Riding out of the woods, I saw a bald eagle sitting in the big cottonwood, and I like to think it was a sign that he’s watching over me. 🩶
A yellow and black snowmobile in woods blanketed in snow.
February 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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It costs me to cut a living tree, but I don’t want a plastic one, so here’s my zero mile/tree spacing Christmas tree.
Four-foot tall subalpine fir and saw in a snowy landscape.
December 13, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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"A trickster cursed Alex to lose someone she loves, but her fear of loss is a curse of its own."

My #YA novel, Devil by the Tail, looks pretty under the Christmas tree. For lovers of wilderness adventure, cursed girls, and tricksters! Set in snowy northern BC!

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The book Devil by the Tail propped up beneath a Christmas tree.
December 11, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Thank you!

My YA novel about a cursed tern girl who wouldn’t be caught dead without her axe released last October!

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Novel Devil by the Tail in paperback and e-reader. The cover features the silhouette or a girl against a sharp mountain. The sky is filled with auroras through which peek a and a predator’s eyes. It features a bi MC, a shapeshifter, emotional self- sabotage, French-Canadian folklore, and is set in a small, remote town.
December 7, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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First significant snowfall of the year! To celebrate, I took my debut YA novel Devil by the Tail on a little trek. For fans of unreliable teen narrators, even more unreliable snowmobiles, and, of course, Very Good Dogs™️.
A brown and white dog sitting in snow beside an old orange snowmobile. The book Devil by the Tail is propped on the hood.
November 16, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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À propos of nothing, my spooky YA paranormal novel Devil by the Tail released today.
Picture of a book and e-reader on a background out dark-purplish forest, surrounded by the book’s tropes and a silvery Reader’s Choice five-star review sticker. The tropes are: an axe is a girl’s best friend, emotional self-sabotage, remote mountain town, a good dog no matter what, a shape-shifting trickster, an angsty bi main character, and French-Canadian folklore. The book cover shows the silhouette of a girl gazing at a dark mountain peak. The sky is awash in auroras and faint predator’s eyes show through.
October 4, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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My YA paranormal novel releases in one month and it has a book trailer!
youtu.be/Vm_h2Q6f8Cw
My YA paranormal novel releases on October 4! Watch the book trailer on youtube!
September 4, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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COVER REVEAL🎉

I am thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel DEVIL BY THE TAIL, publishing October 4th, 2024 @DeepHeartsYA! Stay tuned for preorder swag and other fun stuff!
Image of the book cover in purple, grey, and blue, showing the silhouette of a girl against a dark mountain peak. Faint predator eyes show through a sky awash with aurora borealis.
August 9, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Edits are completed and there's a book cover on the way. I can't wait to share more details! Meanwhile, here's a trope-thingie I made for my #YA novel Devil by the Tail.
Image of a girl carrying an axe surrounder by the tropes found in my upcoming novel Devil by the Tail, which are: YA paranormal, French-Canadian folklore inspired. Shapeshifting trickster. backwoods setting, bisexual MC, emotional self-sabotage, white privilege and pitfalls of allyship.
July 10, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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Hey, #WritingCommunity, we’re doing intros?

I’m Caroline. I write YA speculative fiction. All my stories, including my upcoming debut novel, are set in the woods or on the farm where I live and write. Here’s me on a firewood-stacking day last fall.
Selfie of the author in a black hoodie and camouflage baseball cap.
July 7, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Office with a view. It’s really hot out there, and it’s haying season. This is also the setting for my WIP, a story set on a haunted farm during hay season. 👻
A field of mowed hay viewed from the seat of a green John Deere tractor.
July 7, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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PSA for the #writingcommunity. If you need an eye-freshening activity, thinning carrot seedlings is NOT it. 😵‍💫
A pair of blue reading glasses and some pink tweezers lie on the ground beside a thick row of carrot seedlings.
July 1, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Post pets
Black cat with white paws, one white cheek, and green eyes plays violently with a heart-shaped catnip toy.
June 27, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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Today was not the best, but it ended on a bright note with this evening visitor, a female elk.🩶
A female elk in a field of yellow flowers, with mountains in the background.
June 26, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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Porta-potty mysteriously appears overnight at the edge of my road. There has to be a story in it!

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Grey portable toilet at the edge of a road and hayfield, with a forested hill and cloudy sky in the background.
June 22, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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I always keep an eye on bumblebees when I mow the grass, but today I found this little guy. Its wings are tiny but don’t seem injured. Maybe it just came out of its cocoon?
A moth in the rusty tones of dead leaves with fuzzy yellow antennas and rumpled wings.
June 6, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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My YA paranormal novel about a cursed girl who wouldn’t be caught dead without her axe will be published by Deep Hearts YA next fall!
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A girl in a baseball cap and winter jacket walks into some dark woods, an axe resting on her shoulder. A ghostly feline hovers in the background, watchful. "Devil by the Tail, Fall 2024," is written in red, in crude letters.
October 31, 2023 at 4:24 PM