Mills for auction, as well as information about the upcoming Elora Writers’ Festival in May and the annual fiction contest. The book is both an engaging and modern epic fantasy and a commentary on epic fantasy’s stereotypes, traditions and tropes, organizers state.įrey has also published several other works, including a short story in the Accidental Turn world and an adult colouring book, and after the next two parts of the Accidental Turn come out later this year, has a steampunk action series, The Skylark’s Saga, scheduled to start in 2017.īooks and Beer 2 will also include featured artwork by local steampunk artist D.W. The Untold Tale, the first of the Accidental Turn trilogy, is a meta-fantasy epic in which a woman from our world is drawn into the fictional world of a series of fantasy epics that she’s been a fan of and studied all her life.

Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, won the San Francisco Book Festival award for SF/F, was nominated for a 2011 CBC Bookie, was named one of The Advocate’s Best Overlooked Books of 2011, and garnered both a starred review and a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly. “There were a couple of readings, a Q and A session, lively conversation among the attendees and, of course, beer.”Ī “fanthropologist” and “professional geek” who’s appeared in podcasts, documentaries and on TV, Frey is also an actor and voice actor – she appeared in last fall’s Vision Theatre production of War of the Worlds. Frey.”īeynon added, “The people who came last year enjoyed the intimacy of the event,” he said. “We’re building on that success with Books and Beer 2, featuring local author, J.M. “It was a successful fundraiser for the 2015 Elora Writers’ Festival and brought literature and libations to a cold January evening,” committee member Dave Beynon said in a press release. Last year’s event featured rural noir author Brad Smith.

The event was created in 2015 by writers’ festival committee member and short fiction contest chair Jean Mills as a fundraiser for the festival. Tickets are available in advance or at the door – space is limited. Tickets are $15 and include an author reading, question and answer period, snacks and beer, the latter sponsored by Wellington Brewery. 26 starting at 7pm at Roxanne’s Reflections Book and Card Shop in downtown Fergus. Frey, author of the December-released meta-fantasy The Untold Tale, and science fiction adventure Triptych in 2011. The Elora Writers’ Festival presents an intimate evening with a local author at the festival’s second “Books and Beer” event.īooks and Beer 2 features J.M.

Triptych by J.M. Frey