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ARC Campaign for Book II: THE EXODUS from the Warriors of the Last Days series

Blurb:

Montreal did not collapse all at once.

Infrastructure failed slowly. Districts fragmented. Flooded transport corridors became borders. Entire communities disappeared into the cold concrete arteries beneath the city.

Years after the fall, survivors live inside quarry settlements, scavenger enclaves, and unstable alliances built around whatever resources remain.

The Exodus follows a group attempting to cross a fractured post-collapse Montreal city when another faction attacks their lands. They are headed towards a now mythical quarry north-east of Montreal called Francon. It will be a brutal trek, where survival depends less on heroism than endurance, trust, and the ability to navigate the ruins of systems that no longer function.

This is grounded, atmosphere-heavy post-apocalyptic fiction focused on environmental realism, social tension, survival logistics, and the psychological cost of collapse.

Triggers: Violence, death, harsh survival situations, psychological distress, environmental catastrophe, social collapse, injury, grief.

Exact publication date: June 30, 2026

ARC distribution date: June 1, 2026

Preferred review deadline: July 15, 2026

ARC signup instructions: If interested, you can register here: https://warriorsofthelastdays.com/campaigns/

Countries availability: Digital ARC copies available internationally. Formats available: ePub, mobi and pdf, which should cover most needs.

Warriors of the Last Days: The Warriors series is set in a post-apocalyptic Canada and the story is told through novels and short stories. The first series of four novels is set in Montreal. In 2027, four new novels will come out, set in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon and the St-Pierre and Miquelon Islands (which are technically France but only 19 km from Newfoundland and will start some of the trouble when one of the islanders crosses inland). Short stories are released each month and are available exclusively to our newsletter subscribers. They will be released in a compiled form roughly every two years.

I am launching a series of dystopian post-apocalyptic fiction set across Canada. The novels are set in various cities and provinces. I hope to be able to do 4 novels per year.

My plan for building a newsletter list is as follows:|

I created a bunch of short stories set in the universe in the last year. Some are prequels or sequels to novels, all between 5-15 pages. I have about 32 stories ready.

I am setting up my auto responder to send to my subscribers a new story, in universe, every month. That way, even if I have nothing new to say or anything to launch, they always get something monthly as long as they remain subscribed.

The way I set the stories up is as an online epub reader - so no download. You need to login with the email you used for the newsletter. That gives you access to the stories as they are released as other bonus content throughout the series site (deleted chapters, in world reports, etc.).

The idea is to keep readers engaged, not just sign up to get a freebie and call it a day, either unsubscribe or forget about it. If you hate the stories, you unsubscribe and never hear from me again and only lose access to a small restricted access section of the website. If you like them, you get a new story every month to tide you over between novels releases.

After a year or two, depending on the number of pages, I would release the stories as compilations, one every two years or so sounds like the most reasonable, so the people who are not. on the email list gets to read them.

I find that just giving your email for a freebie and nothing else feels kind of empty. I have lots of ideas for stuff that will not make it into a novel. But there is no big market for short stories. People who want to read them but not subscribe will be able to purchase them in a compilation in a couple of years. The people who commit to the series get to read them exclusively.

I don't know.

What do you people think?