Veronique Racine, a resident of the region, has just launched her first book in English. Entitled “The Wanderer’s Quest,” the novel is part of the author’s favorite genre, science fiction.
Born in Chicoutimi and attending a French school, Veronique prefers to write in English, where there are fewer grammar, she explained in a phone interview.
Farmer settled in the area for several years, finally embarking on writing more seriously with Olympia publisher publishing this first book. She has been writing since she was 18, but has not published until now. “I was thinking about it, but I didn’t dare. I didn’t know anything about it. But a year ago, I decided to take the plunge.
Of all this process, which according to her words was not at last complicated, she maintains that the process is long from manuscript to publication. Now that the book is available in print and on the web (on Amazon), she needs to do some marketing to encourage people to get it, which she finds more difficult.
Véronique also notes that she preferred to publish in English, which would allow her to reach a larger readership. “I already have texts in French,” she says again. Maybe we’ll have the chance to read some in the next few years because she admits to always finding time to write.
With her first book, she plunges the reader into a world, forty years in the future, where a virus and disease have claimed many victims. As her description indicates, in her writing she likes to imagine what would happen to the Earth if things continued as they are now. A vision of the end of the world that would make people want to change their ways of doing things and living…
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Veronique Racine (Image credit)
