Nathan Caro Fréchette is a queer transgender sequential artist, publisher, and author. He has published over a dozen short stories, both graphic and prose, as well as five novels, three graphic novels, and two works of nonfiction. He has taught creative writing over a decade, and has a degree in Film Studies and another in Sequential Art. He was the founder and director of the French Canadian literary magazine Histoires à Boire Debout, an editor for the French Canadian graphic novel publisher Premières Lignes, and is a co-founder of the Ottawa-based publisher Renaissance. He has been teaching creative writing since 2005, and GMing various table-top RPGs since 1997.
Guest posts and reviews:
If you would like me to review your book, please use the contact forms below to get in touch with me. Please note that I mostly review independent books and especially books by and about queer and other marginalized people.
I also welcome guest posts and interviews from published (including self-published) authors. If you want an interview, I will choose the questions; if you want to write a guest post (which I usually prefer over an interview) you are free to choose your topic, however, it must have something to do with your writing/creative process, being a marginalized writer, mental health, or queer things, and not just be a random promotional post about your book.
To reach me:
Publications
Some Assembly Required (ongoing on Tapas)
Alone, Nothing Without Us, Renaissance, 2019
The Nettle Witch, The Malahat Review: Queer Perspectives Edition, 2019
Skin, Over the Rainbow: Fairy Tales from the Margin, Exile, 2018
Some Assembly Required, Vol. 1, Renaissance, 2017
Great Minds colouring book, Renaissance, 2017
Making A Living, Renaissance, 2016
“Fluid Mom”, QueerCon zine, 2016
Unblocked, Renaissance, 2015
Blood Matters, novel, Renaissance, 2015
Kindred Spirits, novel, Renaissance, 2014
Brothers In Arms, novel, Renaissance, 2014
Blood Relations, novel, Renaissance, 2013
“Est-ce que les poisons rouges vont au paradis?”, Le Scribe X, 2010.
Assemblage requis, graphic novel, Premières Lignes, 2009
“Fête des pères”, 10x|Kymmenen kertaa, Premières Lignes, 2008
“La vieille femme et la mer”, Histoires à boire debout, fall 2007
“Le mariage de Thor”, Carambole, 2007
Un pour tous, graphic novel, 2007
“La BD dont vous êtes le héros,” Plan B4, 2006
“En mémoire de François”, Plan B3, 2005
“Le Violon”, Teknès, 1999
Nathan Caro Frechette's Ice Cream for Zombies 
It was great to meet you yesterday at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair! Really enjoying perusing your novel! Thanks for the connect. Cheers, Kristin
Likewise! I had a really great time, thank you!
A little question:
You say that: ‘At the moment, I only review books on writing, not fiction books.’
Not sure if you mean on this page alone, so I’ll give my question a go:
I’m a Norwegian a student that have love the thought of being a writer her entire life. Over the years I’ve tries to write different stories, but most times I give up quite early in the process.Recently I’ve been able to sit down to work seriously on an original work of mine called ‘Moon Witches’. I haven’t gotten that far in the literal writing process yet – I’m trying out a new style of writing and would like some feedback on it before writing more. Would you be willing to take a look at what I have and just give me some pointers? Like what I did good, what I should work with a little and what I should get lots of help with.
The text I’d like you to look at is the first chapter – a text of two thousand words (2k)
I’d really appreciate it if you’d be willing to help me – and I will also post it on my blog – as a form of progress information – and you’d naturally be thanked and referred to in the text.
Other than that I wish you good luck on your future work and your blog,
– WinnifredArtemis
Hello Winnifred,
Please contact me using the form here: http://carolinefrechette.com/about/email/
Thank you!
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