A Gift of Stars by Renée Gendron

Renée Gendron

Ottawa, Canada

I’m a member of the Ottawa Romance Writers Association and the Romance Writers of America. I participate in conferences such as Romancing the Capital, CanCon, and Limestone Genre Expo.

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For the past eight years, I’ve coordinated a local writers club. I’ve also taken courses on creative writing, and I spend most of my free time writing, plotting, and editing. I curate Word Crafting, a blog to help authors hone their craft. I’m also very active on Twitter, where I engage a community of over 6,000 followers.

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A Gift of Stars

The Nearer Realm Tales

Sanders must keep secret the way to win the war of the gods. Calanthe is determined to save her kingdom. Will they learn to trust one another?

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	Romantic Fiction
	85,000 words
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A war between the gods looms. For eight generations, one family has secretly worked on a project that will lead the true gods of the Frinnaie to return to the planet. But it will take decades to finish and more gold than Sanders Maksiner Persungen, Lord of Grosmar and oldest son of the Duke of Nerkess, can come up with. Desperate to complete his mission, Sanders marries a Vardian princess. With the funds he needs secured, he leaves his wife at their wedding feast. Duty first. The words are etched in the steel of his blade, and all but tattooed on him.

Princess Calanthe Sinnia Traenu of Varda, abandoned by her husband, ignores the sneers and taunts of her people and struggles to understand the bizarre clauses in her marriage contract, which her father refuses to explain. Why would he marry her to an Altian nobleman whose family was not close to the Vardian throne? Calanthe spends her first year of marriage alone, thinking, reading, investigating. There is only one reason her father would approve such a marriage: somehow, it saved Varda.

Determined to find out more, Calanthe journeys to the frayed edges of civilization to defend her kingdom. There, she finds her husband, a man she barely knows, besieged by problems. He must bribe a nosy tax collector to keep a foreign army at bay, defend the camp from raiders, and keep the general of the guard and the master builder from killing one another. And now, he must ensure that his bride doesn’t discover his secret.

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According to the Book Ad Report, romance and erotica booked earned $1.4 billion in 2019.
According to the Book Ad Report, Sci-fi/Fantasy books sold for $590.2 million in 2019.
I aim for 50% fantasy plot and 50% romance plot to appeal to both audiences.

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Socerer to the Crown, Zen Cho, Ace, 2015. My book occurs in a second-world, my characters have more heat between them and the fantasy plot is more involved.

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My book fullfills the need for a second world fantasy with a strong romance that has high heat.

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