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The Audiobook We’ve ALL Been Waiting For! Plus a Surprise Product Drop!

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The time has FINALLY arrived, Whimsies! The book that started it all – Charting Stars – is an audiobook!

Narrated by the talented Lauren Amanda, it is available for purchase NOW through Audible! And we suggest saving your membership credits because it’s currently on sale for less than $10! So snag it quick! We have no idea how long this sale will last.

If you’d like to apply for a free review copy, head over to NetGalley and request one. We can’t give a copy to everyone (I know, I know, we really wish we could!), but if you’re lucky, you might get approved!

Either way, once you’ve listened, we would absolutely love your feedback! Reviews are welcome and appreciated on Amazon/Audible, Goodreads, or anywhere else you feel like sharing.

We hope you are just as excited as we are about this news. And we haven’t forgotten we promised you a surprise!

That’s right, friends, starting tomorrow, we are offering a new and unique piece of Whimsical merch every day until December 17th!

Each day, we will launch a new product featuring Whimsical artwork. Products range from household use, wearables, decorations, and more! A sneak peek is below, but make sure to follow our Instagram for each daily product drop!

These will only be available for preorder on our website, and once the event concludes on the 17th, we will order your items to be sent directly to you from the manufacturers. Please note these will NOT arrive in time for Christmas.

Questions? Feel free to message us on our Instagram or just reply to this email. We love hearing from our whimsies!

Charting Stars Has a BRAND NEW Cover! (and an old GIVEAWAY)

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Welcome to the Nine Realms!

We are delighted to announce that Charting Stars has been re-released!! Not only is there a brand new cover, but the story itself has been lightly revised (don’t fret if you loved the first edition – it just has an added chapter and been slightly tweaked).

To answer the big question? Why did we do this?

We won’t sugarcoat things. Charting Stars has had a pretty rough time. For those who may not know, it began as a graphic novel… but those are extremely labor-intensive to create and with her chronic illness, Micheline couldn’t continue with the illustrations required.

There were also some other challenges behind the scenes so, Charting Stars became a regular novel. Unfortunately, its worldwide debut in the midst of The Maiden Ship trilogy didn’t get it the undivided attention we feel it deserves.

So what to do? Well, at Whimsical, we don’t quit. We may postpone and reschedule and delay because life happens. But Micheline was determined for her feel-good fantasy story to have every opportunity to reach the right readers. And we hope that means you!

Charting Stars is available from our website in paperback, hardcover, or the exclusive dust jacketed edition! The dust jacket edition includes an exclusive design on the hardcase, interior illustrations, and a bonus chapter!

If you prefer eBook, you may also order the Kindle format from Amazon.

PLUS! The first 50 orders from the shop will receive the goodies pictured below (two art postcards and one double-sided bookmark) free with their order!

This is NOT a preorder! We have these books in hand ready to ship to you as soon as you order!

To celebrate this re-launch, we’re giving away a copy of the discontinued graphic novel that started it all, along with a stack of Charting Stars postcards! To enter, click HERE!

Some reminders before you go…

Jane Austen fans! The next installment of our collection is Sense and Sensibility! Preorders will begin in mid-June, so keep your eyes open for that announcement on our Instagram and in a newsletter!

We Will Be Heroes (Book 2 in the We Could Be Villains series) is still available for preorder but the preorder incentives are running low! So if you were waiting to grab your copy, don’t wait much longer!

Thank you, our readers, for always being amazing!

XOXO,
Micheline

RELEASE DAY IS HERE!

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It’s here!!! SO EXCITED!!!

Hello my Whimsies, Micheline here!

Charting Stars is officially out and about in the world!!! So excited for you to read this tale. I had one of my ARC readers say that I had created a new genre with this book–FEEL-GOOD FANTASY–I love that! It’s exactly what I wanted to create!

Charting Stars began as a graphic novel series years ago, but due to unforeseen circumstances, an injury, and serious chronic health problems, I was unable to continue. It was devastating; I loved the story and the characters so much, but I just couldn’t draw while I was so injured and ill. Hence, during that time, I turned to writing as my primary creative outlet, it was something I could actually do from my bed, and it wasn’t until after I wrote my debut novel, The Maiden Ship, that I started to imagine continuing the Charting Stars tales in a full novel versions instead. So, as my health recovered to more functional levels, I began plucking away at this story again, and over the course of 2019 and 2020, I wrote this book. What I want people to know the most about this story is that, like me, it got a second chance at life, and I poured every single ounce of gratitude I had for being alive and functioning into this tale. I filled it with my joy, imbued it with my humour, and I’m desperately hoping—honestly it’s all I care about—that it makes you smile and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Yep, that’s my only goal with this one, to bring you JOY!

If you haven’t already, you can order the book through my website here or on Amazon around the world.

Charting Stars is the first book in a spirited, heartfelt young adult fantasy series by Micheline Ryckman that will appeal to the minds of those who’ve always felt, well, ordinary. Talia’s adventures prove that even an average everyday girl can have skills enough to be a hero. And she’s joined on her journey by a lovable cast of characters—some human, some furry, some covered in ivy vines—who will steal your heart away.

 

Charting Stars Trailer

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ONLY ONE MORE WEEK until release day!!!
So excited to share this Charting Stars trailer with you!

Talia Benson would consider herself fairly ordinary. Anyone would. Diligent student, only child to a single mother, protector of three cats—nothing crazy has ever happened to her. And Talia wants it to stay that way: stable. Her knack for making friends, along with her obsession with the stars and her love for skirt pockets, coffee, and art, is more than enough to keep Talia happy for the rest of her days—that is, until a single evening in front of a blank canvas becomes the adventure she never dreamed she wanted.

Now, Talia finds herself lost in a world completely unlike her own, a land where monsters roam and magic thrives, where wars are born then die at the wave of a hand, and where strange entities decide the fate of those who live among the Nine Realms. The guardians of these foreign lands have seen a great shift in the heavens. Something has changed, a prophecy has been spoken—a darkness is coming. But maybe, just maybe, an ordinary girl thrown between worlds could be the key to saving it all.

Charting Stars is the first book in a spirited, heartfelt young adult fantasy series by Micheline Ryckman that will appeal to the minds of those who’ve always felt, well, ordinary. Talia’s adventures prove that even an average everyday girl can have skills enough to be a hero. And she’s joined on her journey by a lovable cast of characters—some human, some furry, some covered in ivy vines—who will steal your heart away.