ABOUT
Beyond the Page
The stories that I write often insist that magic belongs, here and now, in the world we know
…because that magic is in you.
It’s in the ways we wonder and awaken to our aliveness. How we believe in possibility after crushing heartbreak. It’s in the ways we fight, free and forgive our demons. In the mistakes we bury and the strength that rises from the rubble. It’s in every relationship and choice.
Magic is in our hearts, ok? It’s in our hearts.
Unique Perspective
K.M. Rocheleau writes fantasy and horror books and comics for teens and adults. She grew up on the coast of Maine, where she explored secret paths through rocky shores and devoured more than her fair share of spooky folklore and off-the-boat lobster.
When a health crisis threatened her plan A, she started writing in notebooks at doctor's appointments as a healing outlet. Only to discover that writing her own stories was her plan A all along.
Passionate about helping others heal and transform through the power of creativity, K.M. Rocheleau is a certified Gateless methodology writing teacher.
When she’s not writing, you'll find her surfing, searching for the perfect record and bookstore combo, and enjoying Maine magic with her husband and spunky pup.
Inspirations
My idea of literary torture is crafting a list of my favorite books and genres. However, if you can name a story with magic, myth, murder, and monsters (basically all the good M’s), it’s probably already on my TBR. I love to flirt with morally grey tales that wind the shadowed path between the light and the dark, with no clear choices and complex consequences.
I also can’t quit a good redemption story. I’m a sucker for prose that submerges me in all my senses, romance, adventure, a good jump scare, and deep dives into strange skill sets that are not my own (yes, I’ll read your uncle’s memoir about the time he traveled the country with a polka band in a van driven by a werewolf who lectured everyone about the dangers of lunar cycle shaming).
How to find your voice (the hard way)
Ok, so maybe I once thought that to be a writer, someone from the Publishing Powers That Be would show up before graduation with an official badge and recruit me to some secret order of literary alchemists (cue the mystical soundtrack).
Or maybe I was terrified of making the wrong choice.
So I made all the choices. Hilarity and heartbreak ensued. I fled a pre-med path on the West Coast to work for Condé Nast in the Big Apple while earning a degree from New York University. All so I could work crazy jobs in the creative circus of theater, film & television, broadcast news, and marketing. I ping-ponged between both US coasts and lived in five cities.
Until a health crisis sent me back home to Maine, where, at the bottom of my worst moment, I rediscovered my dream of writing my own stories. I learned how to take the pain and fear I once ran from, the stories I was taught to silence, and transform them into tales of monsters and magic, dangerous romance and adventures with impossible odds.
Turns out, that’s the secret to everyone’s story. Our worst moments — the losses life hands us and the lessons that leave scars—are the key to our dreams. If we’re willing to make a new choice and write a new chapter.