About
The profession of "author" was not Jerome's initial calling. Though the seed was planted in childhood, it only came about as a result of a winding and varied career that included paleoanthropology field experience in Kenya, training in the fine arts, acting for the stage and screen, work in communication and design, and teaching. Hailing from a French Canadian background, fluently bilingual in both English and French, and a self-described compulsive communicator, Jerome’s interests have long orbited the binary system of science and history. It was the weaving together of these diverse interests and influences that ultimately culminated in Jerome's debut novel The Perpetual Now.
In 2021, The Perpetual Now was named winner the Best Indie Book Award (BIBA) for Science Fiction and was a winner in the Commercial Fiction category of the Eric Hoffer Awards, where it was also named a finalist for the First Horizon Award (Best Work by a Debut Author), and shortlisted for the Grand Prize. In addition, it was named as a finalist in the Cross-Genre category at both the International Book Awards (2020) and at the National Indie Excellence Awards (2021).
Featured Work
The Perpetual Now
Ferguston, Ontario, is an angry little town full of dark secrets, a place where keeping your head down is never a bad idea. That’s fine with Justin Lambert, an introverted, biracial 12-year-old who generally prefers books to people anyway.
Against all odds, Justin has found a new friend. Her name is Billie. She’s sweet, precocious, and a bit feisty. She also isn’t human.
David Raymond, on the other hand, is all too human. A brutal, volatile thug and celebrated public nuisance, he was the only person of interest ever named in the suspicious disappearance of Justin’s mother 10 years ago. Although he was never convicted, the lingering stink of suspicion has followed him around for a decade, and he blames the Lamberts.
Now Justin and his dad have stumbled upon evidence that could get the case reopened. When Raymond gets wind of this, his anger is reignited, and he is very good at making bad things happen.
Meanwhile, Justin is learning that Billie has an agenda of her own, and it’s on a scale that defies comprehension. If Justin’s life is threatened— increasingly likely these days—he can’t be sure if Billie will intervene on his behalf, or look at him as just one of an infinite number of variables in some unimaginable cosmological equation.
One way or another, Justin is about to find out.
