🔊SOUND ON!🎵🎶 I’m teaching myself to make book-trailer videos using Canva. And it's so much fun! Here's my first video. 👻 #THEUNWICKEDWITCH #urbanfantasy #Novel #SylviaLorianneLeong

19 y/o Bryar discovers she’s immortal, needs a fortune to hide it, or be killed by ancient gods. A mentor advises her to divorce rich men. But when debaucherous dating weakens her dancing, Bryar must choose between money and safety, or true love and her ballet career. #QuestPit #A #F #R #W

AddieLaRue x 9thHse 19y/o Chloé's in love with Finn, the ghost who’s cared for her since she was 11. Time travel will reverse Finn's death,but remove the ghostly fingerprints that influenced Chloé’s personality. Chloé must choose between her own identity & Finn's life. #QuestPit #A #F #Hs #R #Q

AddieLaRue x 9thHse 19y/o Chloé's in love with Finn, the ghost who’s cared for her since she was 11. Time travel will reverse Finn's death,but remove the ghostly fingerprints that influenced Chloé’s personality. Chloé must choose between her own identity & Finn's life. #QuestPit #A #F #Hs #R #Q

19 y/o Bryar discovers she’s immortal, needs a fortune to hide it, or be killed by ancient gods. A mentor advises her to divorce rich men. But when debaucherous dating weakens her dancing, Bryar must choose between money and safety, or true love and her ballet career. #QuestPit #A #F #R #W

My historical short fiction, North Vancouver, won 3rd in Vancouver's 2023 North Shore Writing Competition. The story's now on my website in case anyone's interested in a read. 🎩 slleong.com/slleong/shor... #LowerLonsdale #NorthVancouver #SyndicateBlock #HistoricalFiction #NorthVancouverHistory

19 YO Bryar discovers she’s immortal, needs a fortune to hide it, or be killed by ancient gods. She’s advised to divorce rich men. But when debaucherous dating weakens her dancing, Bryar must choose between money and safety, or true love and her ballet career. #BluePit #A #F #R #W

AddieLaRue x 9thHse 19yo Chloé's in love with Finn, the ghost who’s cared for her since she was 11. Time travel will: Reverse Finn's death, but remove the ghostly fingerprints that influenced Chloé’s personality. Chloé must choose between her own identity & Finn's life. #BluePit #A #F #Hs #R #Q

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Friendly reminder that my novel Adrift is officially an award-winning book, so if you're looking for gift ideas and know someone who enjoys that kind of thing or climate fiction, or near-future set mysteries - consider picking up a copy! (apologies for crass promo post)

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Love the sound of foghorns! 📢 #foggyday #foggynight #Shipyards #NorthVancouver #Canada

I’m once again seeing writers telling other writers it’s okay to quote movies, books, and songs in their books as long as it’s short and credited, and 😬😬🫣 No. That’s not how that works at all. Not for commercial fiction. (A thread imported from the other place.) (1/🧵)

I'm new to Blue Sky! One month ago, I signed with @erincaseywestin.bsky.social of @galltzacker.bsky.social, and I'm so excited for what comes next! Can't wait to connect with more writers and readers on here. ❤️ #writer #author #agented #amwriting #YAbooks #YAcontemporary #LGBTQ

How wonderful to wake up to another literary agent asking to read my full manuscript. Please cross your fingers that an agent loves THE UNWICKED WITCH enough to represent my writing career. Can't wait for you to meet Chloé, Alice & Finn. 👻 #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #contemporaryfantasy

The beginning of my novel is in the quarterfinals of the First Page Cage contest! Thanks Pulp Literature Press! Wanna read the first 500 words of THE UNWICKED WITCH? pulpliterature.com/the-2024-fir... (One step closer to immortalizing Mo's General Store!) #NorthVancouver #Canada #writingcommunity

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 💗 #tearose #parkandtilfordgardens #NorthVancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada

Sweaty and red-faced from hiking up, up, up the Baden-Powell trail to Cabin Lake. Do you think we found the tree we planted at least thirty years ago? (See last photo.) Please comment below! 🌲 #cypressmountain #cypressbowl #britishcolumbia #Canada #badenpowelltrail

What could be better than bubblegum pink poppies? Scarlet poppies? 💗 #NorthVancouver #spirittrail #poppies

The bench-eating hydrangeas are becoming less aggressive (2024 versus 2020). 🤍 #hydrangeas #LonsdaleAvenue #LonsdaleAve #NorthVancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada #rainforest #westcoast #centrallonsdale

Lunch date last Friday to get the skinny on a friend's life. 😲 #SeaBus #NorthVancouver #Vancouver #Gastown

Woke this morning to hammering rain & its fresh scent wafting into our bedroom. Grateful for the last 2 of weeks of normal #Vancouver summer weather. Comfortable to walk to work, climb the ravine, or roam #NorthVancouver getting stuff done. Back to #climate change heat by Friday.

Canada is burning. Again. Governments acted super quick with Covid. Why can't the hammer come swiftly down now? Why is capitalism allowed to destroy our planet's livability? (Photo shows the air quality due to forest fires.)

Positive or negative, what you focus on is your choice.

Scaled down replicas of squatter's shacks that were part of Maplewood mudflats for many decades. - Canadian artist, Ken Lum. 🕯 #maplewoodflats #NorthVancouver #historicalart #Canada

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🌿❤

Spent the day on the other side. 🛥 #CoalHarbour #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada

Taking Lil'D to smell the roses. 🥀 @dsosa1111 #NorthVancouver #parkandtilfordgardens #rosesofinstagram #rosegarden #tenthousandsteps

Salmonberry in the ravine. Just out of reach. 👐 #NorthVancouver #TheRavine #salmonberry

The purple blooms of Grand Boulevard. 💜 #NorthVancouver #Purpleblooms

Yellow flowers in the ravine. 🌼 #NorthVancouver #TheRavine #yellowflowers

Went to Whistler for the weekend and took only one photo. ☀️ #whatswrongwithme #GreenLake #Whistler #BritishColumbia #Canada

Trains and roses. 🥀 #contrasts #trains #roses #Coquitlam #BritishColumbia #Canada

I'm waiting in the car, taking photos of trains, while Tony's inside Princess Auto, buying wrenches and things. 🚂 #trains #waiting #PrincessAuto #Coquitlam #BritishColumbia

Magnolia season is almost over. 🌸 #Magnolias #NorthVancouver #Spring #Canada

This was my writing room over the weekend. Pan Pacific, Whistler. Love this mountain view! ✒️ #WritingCommunity #novelwriter #contemporaryfantasy #writinginbed #canadianliterature

Damn food is beautiful! Guess what I'm making next. 🍆 #CottageintheSky #NorthVancouver #Ratatouille #naturalliving #wholefood

Rhodos and azaleas and camellias, oh my! 🌸 #NorthVancouver #blossoms #springblossoms #Rhododendrons #Camellias #Azaleas #pacificnorthwest #April

Cherry blossoms! 🍒 #NorthVancouver #cherryblossoms #springblossoms #pacificnorthwest #April

As soon as we recieved Jeremy's new book, Tony retired to the "reading room" to get started. Haven't been able to pry it away ever since. 📖 To get your own copy: www.amazon.ca/Call-Void-J-... 📖 #crimefiction #WritingCommunity #NeWestPress #Vancouver #ReadingCommunity

The 1910 St. Edmund's Catholic Church at sunset. ✨️ #NorthVancouver #canadashistoricplaces #catholicchurch #northvancouverhistory #gothicaesthetic

One more snowfall? Yay or nay?

Houseboats in the snow. ❄️ #houseboatcommunity #January #NorthVancouver #mosquitocreekmarina #icyocean

Walking down Mahon Avenue towards St. Edmund's Church. ⛪️ #NorthVancouver #Sunset #Church #walkinglifestyle #walkingishealthy

Upstream, downstream. ❄️ #NorthVancouver #TheRavine #WaggCreek #snowyrainforest #PacificNorthWest #Canada

Sangria sunset ✨️ #ShipyardsDistrict #wallaceshipyards #Lowerlonsdale #NorthVancouver #historical

The snow's almost gone. Here's a reminder of how beautiful it was. ❄️ #NorthVancouver #TheRavine #snowyrainforest #PacificNorthWest #Canada

CALL OF THE VOID (Sloane II) will be hitting shelves March 1! Pre-orders help the success of a book. Please order yours today from wherever you get books, or from: bookshop.newestpress.com/products/cal... 🔎 #crimefiction #VancouverNoir #WritingCommunity #Thriller #NeWestPress #canadianpublisher

Waterfront Park Dock ❄️ #NorthVancouver #SpiritTrail #VancouverHarbour

Happy Christmas & Merry New Year!