Hi, I am M.A. Gauthier
Currently, I am a marketing professional by day and a bookworm and author by night (and mornings, noons, afternoons after like six and the weekends). I am currently working on my novel "Orizonia", planning to publish it in late 2023. In the meantime, I will do my best to share my passion for the literery world in general and contemporarry fantasy in particular with you guys. If you fancy, drop me a note on Instagram (which I hope to revive soon) or simply by e-mail.
My Story
Unlike many other authors, I have not always dreamt about writing for a living. After a more or less eventful time in primary and secondary school, I had the opportunity to visit the so-called "Gymnasium", which here in Switzerland is the prerequisite to be allowed to study at University level later. I decided to go and study communications and marketing in a town roughly 200 kilometres from the place where I grew up. To many of my international readers, this distance will not seem consequential, but for us Swiss, this is practically the other side of the country. So I made a tremendous leap.
It was then, during my time at the University of St. Gallen, that I started to write. It began with little stories, short adventures that somehow seemed to be connected, slowly building a world that I was able to explore. The world was silly at first but grew more serious and the stakes were suddenly higher than I had anticipated. Because of its silly beginnings, however, this story is destined to remain my private playground.
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Having worked on and almost finished my first novel, "The Diamond General" in 2020, I decided to park it in the drawer and work on a second one, set in an entirely different world. This second novel, "Orizonia", will be realeased in fall / winter 2023.