Jamieson Villeneuve
Jamieson has been writing since a young age when he realized he could be writing instead of paying attention in school. Since then, he has created many worlds in which to live his fantasies and live out his dreams.
He is the author of several novels including The Ghost Mirror, The Hunted Series, Valentine, Cupids Delight and others.
He currently lives in Ottawa Ontario Canada with his husband and his cat, Mave, who thinks she's people.
He is the author of several novels including The Ghost Mirror, The Hunted Series, Valentine, Cupids Delight and others.
He currently lives in Ottawa Ontario Canada with his husband and his cat, Mave, who thinks she's people.
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January 07, 2010
Read about Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider, one of the greatest novels of 2010!
January 07, 2010
Read about one of the best novels of 2010, The Cirlce of Friends Book V: Heather by L. Diane Wolfe
October 27, 2009
Read about Sins of the Flesh, the new novel by New York Times best selling author Caridad Pineiro
October 06, 2009
Read about The Year of the Flood, the new novel by Margaret Atwood
October 06, 2009
Read about Androgynous Murder House Party by Steven Rigolosi
October 06, 2009
Read about The Mark, the first Henry Parker novel by Jason Pinter
October 06, 2009
Read about Generation A, the new novel by Douglas Coupland
October 06, 2009
Read about Choices Meant for Kings, the new novel by fantasy author Sandy Lender
October 06, 2009
Read about The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
September 02, 2009
Read about the new novel by New York Times Best Selling and Award Winning author Meg Rosoff titled The Bride's Farewell.
July 19, 2009
Read about the new Harry Potter Film, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
July 15, 2009
Read about my month long Harry Potter indulgance, my thoughts of what is to come in the new Harry Potter movie, the Harry Potter series of books, the fandom and the movies.
April 23, 2009
Read about Private Midnight, the thrilling new novel by Kris Saknussemm
March 25, 2009
Read all about Honor Calls, the new novel in The Calling Series by the incredible Caridad Pineiro.
March 25, 2009
Read all about Fury Calls, the new novel in The Calling Series by the incredible Caridad Pineiro.
March 15, 2009
Read all about the fourth book in The Circle of Friends Series by the incredible L. Diane Wolfe.
March 15, 2009
Read all about the third book in the incredible The Circle of Friends Series by the wonderful L. Diane Wolfe.
March 15, 2009
Read all about the second book in The Circle of Friends Series by the wonderful L. Diane Wolfe.
March 15, 2009
Read all about the first book in The Circle of Friends Series by the wonderful L. Diane Wolfe.
January 08, 2009
Read about Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson and Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning by Kevin Sullivan
December 26, 2008
Read all about FROM ZAFTIG TO ASPIE, the new memoir by DJ Kirby
December 12, 2008
Read all about What Choices We Made, the new book from fantasy author Sandy Lender
December 12, 2008
Read all about The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the new book by JK Rowling
December 04, 2008
Read all about the incredible new novel BLACK BOXES by Caroline Smailes
November 07, 2008
Read about Harry, A History, the new amazing book by Melissa Anelli, a new book that looks into life inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon.
October 21, 2008
Read about The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Bag of Bones by Stephen King
October 19, 2008
Learn how author Jamieson Wolf promoted his novel Hunted when it was released in paperback!
October 19, 2008
Learn more about A Lion Among Men, the new novel by Gregory Maguire
June 20, 2008
Read all about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, celebrating the fifth anniversary of it's release!
June 11, 2008
Read all about how emails from readers help writers keep on writing.
April 30, 2008
Read all about Hard Candy, Madonna's new album
April 24, 2008
This article talks about the new 100th Anniversary edition of Anne of Green Gables
April 06, 2008
Read all about the new novel by Erin Hunter, Seekers: The Quest Begins
April 06, 2008
Read about Derek Landy's new novel Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire
April 06, 2008
Read about Elizabeth Scott's new novel Stealing Heaven
March 19, 2008
This article is about The Final Warning, the new book by James Patterson
March 09, 2008
This article is all about Anne Rices newest novel Christ the Lord The Road to Cana
February 18, 2008
DISRAELI AVENUE is a free ebook which you can download from Caroline Smailes web site. You can find it here: http://www.carolinesmailes.co.uk/disraeli.html
The book is free but Caroline asks that you consider donating to One in Four, a charity that goes to help victims of sexual abuse and sexual violence. It´s a fantastic book for a very good cause.
February 05, 2008
This article talks about the realization of a dream for me: that of becoming a romance author.
January 31, 2008
In this article, I talk about reading a favourite novel of mine, The Colorado Kid by Stephen King. It's one of his least popular novels and in the article I write about why this is and why I love it anyway.
January 02, 2008
I must confess that I am a late comer to the idea of chatrooms. When I first stumbled onto the Internet, the idea of chatting to people I didn't know held little to no appeal for me. I didn't understand the thrill that some people got from chatting in Internet chatrooms.
What I didn't know is th...
January 02, 2008
I have dated a lot of men in my life. And most of them have been tw*ts. After each break up, I always promised myself that I would not date that kind of man again, that I would not fall under the spell of the Tw*t.
The only problem was that I didn’t know how to recognize one. I had no idea that ...
December 19, 2007
I was given Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on DVD. My husband Robert gave it to me as a cheer up present. He went the extra mile and got me the special two disc edition, knowing that I am a Special Features Junkie.
I have three addictions in life. Four if you count Chocolate. But ...
December 02, 2007
I have always been a very visual person.
Before I even considered myself a writer, I drew. Not many people know that my art came before my words, but it's the truth. I was constantly sketching away and usually had a sketchbook and a couple of pencils with me at all times.
I knew I wasn...
November 13, 2007
One of my favourite authors has written a new book. It is called The Latke That Couldn’t Stop Screaming. How lovely is that? Doesn’t that title just give you chills?
Just the sound of the title fills me with holiday delight.
I really really really really want this book. I know it's not q...
November 04, 2007
Someone asked me the other day why I created a soundtrack for my dark children's novel The Ghost Mirror. Novels don't have soundtracks, do they? How would you even think of creating a soundtrack to a novel?
Well, those are all very good questions. But, in order to answer the question correct...
November 02, 2007
I have always loved postcards.
I have collected postcards for years. Every time someone is travelling somewhere, I always ask them to bring me back a postcard. They're cheap, light, take up no room whatsoever and give me a glimpse of somewhere far away.
To me they represent places that I lon...
October 30, 2007
Meet Ezekiel Murphy.
Needing work, he takes a job working as a toilet attendant at a men’s washroom in the London Underground. Working with two other men, Reynolds and Jason, he figures this will be just one more run of the mill job.
He is mistaken.
One day while cleaning the bathroom, he w...
October 23, 2007
Lately, I have been drawn to what read what I call hard books. Books that are huge, thick, sprawling stories well over six hundred pages. Or books with dark storylines, twisting plots, epic tales. I have shied away from the lighter fare of trashy novels, romances and mass fiction.
I’m pretty s...
October 11, 2007
Yesterday morning I was talking to my co-workers and sharing my good news: Valentine, my gay erotic paranormal romance, had been accepted by Cobblestone Press!
Josh, the office admin, turned to me and said: “Did you just say your gay erotic romance?”
I nodded. “Yep.” I said.
“You mean li...
September 24, 2007
I have been thinking about truth lately.
This is mostly because I have been writing my memoir titled One Step at a Time. It will be published by The Friday Project in the summer of 2008.
Truth has concerned me because I have taken pains to remember everything that has happened in my past so ...
August 22, 2007
I was born on August 22nd, 1978. Every year around my birthday I am reminded that I was supposed to have died
My mother, young and frightened, felt her contractions starting late one evening and was rushed to the hospital. She was told that she was in labour. Scared, she did what she could to sto...
August 22, 2007
I was in Montreal this weekend when my good friend Jody showed me something that made my mouth drop open.
She had bought a copy of The Ghost Mirror.
I hadn't seen what it looked like in paperback at that time as my copies hadn't arrived from the publisher. I looked at her copy and took it fr...
August 02, 2007
One of the happiest times of my life is mixed with a little bit of sadness.
Yesterday, I received an email from Vickie Kennedy, my publisher at e Treasures Publishing. The email said: The Ghost Mirror is print ready and is now released for sale in print format.
I stared at those words for a ...
July 24, 2007
As I approach the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I am reminded of a quote from another novel.
Years ago I had the pleasure of reading Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. And though the rest of the novels in the series weren’t as good as the first, something that Zed, the wise old...
July 15, 2007
Harry Potter is the closet thing I have to an obsession.
In fact, I’m pretty sure it IS an obsession. I have lived and breathed the Harry Potter books since the first one, reading each volume many times. I’ve read the first five books upwards of fourteen times a piece and I’m currently reading b...
July 09, 2007
After reading my new novel, The Ghost Mirror, one of my friends asked if I had a heart.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“I’m talking about Mave!” she yelled. “How could you do that to her? How could you let that happen to her?”
Perhaps I should back up a bit and explain. In my new young adu...
July 07, 2007
Blood RedHeather GrahamMira BooksJuly 2007Genre: Paranormal/Romance
Lauren Crow is not having a good time.
After accompanying her friends Heidi and Deanna on a trip to New Orleans to celebrate Heidi's upcoming wedding, she receives bad news: her life is in danger.
The giver of this news...
July 06, 2007
Imagine ThisSade Adeniranwww.imaginethisthenovel.com
Imagine this: being taken away from all that you cherish, all that you love and being thrust into a landscape that is frightening, bizarre and so incredibly different from all that you know.
This is exactly what happens to nine year ol...
July 03, 2007
There has been a lot of talk about The Secret.
The book and DVD promises to give you everything you have ever wished for. Be it fame, money or power, The Secret promises that you can have it all.
I thought this sounded like a fantastic idea. What little I knew of the book had to do with thin...
June 30, 2007
I love Stephen King.
He has a way of writing that pulls you in and, before you know it, you’re deep into a story, caring for characters and waiting with anticipation to find out how everything will finish up. With a King novel though, things never go in the direction you think they will.
Tha...
June 25, 2007
I find that Stephen King is a wonderful conversation starter. Specifically his Dark Tower books. It never fails; if I am carrying one of the seven books from The Dark Tower series, someone will speak to me.
Most of these conversations have taken place on busses. As a lot of people take public tr...
June 25, 2007
Have you ever stopped to wonder who God truly is?
Is he a man or a woman? Is he black or white? Maybe she's purple or yellow? Would he be wise? Would she be menacing? What if we could sit down with God and ask those questions we all have burning a fire inside of us. What if we could actually int...
June 25, 2007
Quite often, when trying to write, nothing will come. I despise sitting in front of the computer, or at my journal, staring at a blank page. I find that when I have no idea to write, or the Muse just isn't there to give you guidance, it's hard to force out words when there is nothing to inspire t...
June 25, 2007
Built on a Native American burial ground in Seattle in the early 20th century, Rose Red was to be a Queen among houses. Built as a wedding gift by John Rimbauer for his wife Ellen, Rose Red claims a victim even before the foundations are laid. A foreman is shot to death; his death would only be the ...
June 22, 2007
I am a firm believer that all things come in threes.
You know how it goes. You’ll get three pieces of good news all at once: A birth, an engagement and a wedding. Or maybe you’ll get three pieces of bad news in a short period of time: Your record deal fell through, the novel you submitted to Har...
June 11, 2007
In Search of AdamCaroline SmailesThe Friday ProjectJune, 2007
When she is seven years old, Jude finds her mother dead from an overdose.
A bottle of pills lay scattered on the bedside table and there is a note. Jude approaches her mother carefully, slowly. The note says: Jude, I have gone...
June 06, 2007
I am always amazed at the power of books. No matter how many novels I read, I’m always enchanted when I first flip open that cover and find myself surrounded by a world that didn’t exist a few moments ago. I always love seeing someone reading a book I’ve read or reading a novel I’ve wanted to buy. I...
June 06, 2007
I wrote my favourite novel when I was unemployed.
I was working for a temp company doing office work and for three horrendous weeks, they had no work for me. I was going crazy, climbing the walls with anxiety. Would I be able to pay my share of the rent? Would they have work for me soon? What is...
May 18, 2007
There have been lots of novels written by poets. However, I haven’t read many of them.
I usually find that novels written by poets to be lacking. As if the grace of their prose doesn’t translate well to a narrative. The plots tend to get bogged down by an over use of words that I find maddening ...
May 18, 2007
BLOOD CALLS by Caridad Piniero
Diego Rivera is no stranger to loneliness.
Alive for thousands of years, he has denied himself the one thing he has always craved most: the love of a woman. After his wife’s betrayal, and his vampire lover’s demise, he knows that there is no love for him in the ...
May 18, 2007
CHOICES MEANT FOR GODS BY SANDY LENDER
What would you do to save something you loved? What would you do if you were threatened? Would you cower? Or would you fight with everything you had, every ounce of strength and magic you possessed? Some of us aren’t even given that choice.
When Jamieson...
May 18, 2007
I am continually surprised by people.
I suffer from Cerebral Palsy. My legs have been getting worse. Some days now it hurts to walk with every step and stairs have become my enemy. I find myself dreading the moment I arrive home and have to climb up the forty stairs it takes to reach my apart...
May 02, 2007
Recently, I was fortunate enough to have my dark children’s novel The Ghost Mirror accepted for publication by e Treasures Publishing. You can imagine how excited I was to have my novel accepted. I danced around my apartment for days before something dawned on me: how would I promote the novel? ...
May 01, 2007
I have been walking down the Road for a while now.
I’ll admit that I’ve had real problems with this novel. The grimness of it, the stark and sparse world that you inhabit as you read The Road left me feeling cold and in need of a fire to warm my bones. I put the book back on my shelf and am ...
May 01, 2007
I am a relative newcomer to the concept of 4/20.
For years, I had no idea what it meant. I mistakenly thought that it had something to do with Earth Day; perhaps an early celebration of the Earth and Mother Nature?
How wrong I was.
A few years ago, I was walking with a friend around Majo...
April 24, 2007
The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost
By: Dorothy Thompson, Heidi AW Kaminski and Pamela Lawniczak
Loneliness can drive a person to do lots of things. But it can also bring old memories to the surface. One of those you’ve loved, those you yearned for and those you love still…
Reclusive bi...
April 24, 2007
For those of you who have trouble with remembering things, I suggest using Music. Music has a way of helping you remember the smallest details; where you were when you first heard the song, what you were doing. Maybe who you were with. Music has a way of getting through the hazy fog of our memories ...
April 24, 2007
“You’re angry at him because he’s afraid? But…” Jake frowned. “Buy why wouldn’t he be afraid? He’s only a writer. A tale-spinner, not a gunslinger.”
“I know that,” Roland said, “but I don’t think it was fear that stopped him, Jake, or not just fear. He’s lazy, as well. I felt it when I met h...
April 24, 2007
Some would call Stephen King a teller of tales. Yet his is more than that. He is really a story weaver, able to weave threads of a story together to form a tapestry of amazing brilliance. This is shown most notably in his Dark Tower series spanning seven books and thousands of pages.
I am a ...
April 24, 2007
Growing up, I always knew I was different. Every year on my birthday, my mother would tell me the same story. “When you were born, the doctors told me that you would die.” She would say. “They didn’t expect you to live past your first night. One doctor told me that I would be better off to put you ...
April 24, 2007
Lately, I’ve been writing a memoir for The Friday Project based on a blog I maintain called One Step at a Time. Having never written a memoir before, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I began. After writing thirty pages I realized that I was in for more than I had bargained for. I’ve always imme...
November 30, 1999
I am just beginning to learn the value of words.
I currently write a blog called One Step at a Time where I write daily about living with Cerebral Palsy. Before writing the blog, I was under the impression that I had nothing of value to say. And so, instead, I made up stories.
Stories in far a...