Elisa Hategan

RACE TRAITOR: The True Story Of Canadian Intelligence Service's Greatest Cover-up is the visceral true story of a teenage girl who becomes entangled in Canada’s most powerful white supremacist group, the Heritage Front – a domestic terrorist group later revealed to have been created and funded with the assistance of Canada’s spy agency, Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS).

To sixteen-year old runaway Elisse, the new friends she encounters in the secretive Heritage Front are the family she’s never had. They feed her when she’s hungry, watch her back, and Wolfgang Droege, one of the group’s charismatic leaders, introduces her to a trusted friend, notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, who provides her with shelter and work.

In less than a year, Elisse evolves into an extremist groomed for a leadership role in the far-right movement. Her loyalty earns her the attention and tutelage of Grant Bristow, co-founder of the Heritage Front, who is training a secret faction of skinheads and neo-Nazis in information-gathering and terror tactics targeting political opponents. Rapidly drawn into their web of hatred, Elisse witnesses an escalating campaign of terror from which there seems no way out.

Forced to confront her sexual orientation and secret heritage, Elisse realizes that she must fight back. But when she attempts to shut down the vicious organization that had brainwashed her and terrorized innocent Canadians, she learns that a darker force is behind the façade of the Heritage Front: Canada’s own spy agency, backed by the government that was supposed to protect her.

At only eighteen, Elisse’s testimony will lead to the criminal convictions of prominent white supremacists including Wolfgang Droege. Within months, Grant Bristow would be exposed as an undercover CSIS agent. Although Operation Governor never led to the arrest of a single Canadian racist, Bristow will be placed into the Witness Protection Program and given a package worth hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars, while the teenage girl who had named him as a criminal will be denied police protection and forced to go on the run for her life.

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR: A Retelling of The Little Mermaid 

Paris, 2015: Walking along the banks of the Seine, twenty-four year old Darya Eliade, a young woman spending the summer abroad after the death of her father, stumbles upon a photograph of Adele Hugo, the forgotten daughter of France’s greatest author.

Haunted by the sadness she sees in Adele’s eyes, Darya becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her, setting in motion a journey of self-discovery into her own past as a radical political activist.

With the help of Jeanne, a mysterious Spanish journalist, Darya’s search for the root of heartbreak will track the Hugos’ movements from Paris to the Channel Islands, from spiritualist séances to the austere coastlines of Nova Scotia.

Guernsey, 1854: Eager to escape the oppressive regime of her famous father, twenty-four year old Adele Hugo begins a passionate affair with a young English lieutenant, Albert Pinson. 

Over the next ten years their affair will spiral into madness and tragedy, as Adele’s idealistic pursuit of true love will stop at nothing to fulfill itself. Against a backdrop of occult and political insurgence, Adele plots how she will capture the heart of a man who despises her.

Spanning three timelines, two continents and incorporating the fairytale storyline of The Little Mermaid, Daughters of the Air is a meditation on the nature of love and all its unrestrained expressions: sacrifice, obsession, destruction and redemption. The novel brings together the concepts of reincarnation, fate and love to uncover a secret buried for two centuries.

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The ART of Social Media: An Essential Guide for Writers, Artists & Creatives

 Limited Release Date: March 1, 2017

Now available in print in limited quantities - shipping out for pre-orders and existing clients only. A first batch of paperbacks has been printed and is available on a first-come, first-serve basis to clients, Patreon donors and those who have pre-ordered their copies already. 

If you are interested in ordering a copy, contact me via web-form for the order link, payable via Paypal only.

Supplies are limited. 

 The Magic of Memoir: Discover the Power of Finding your Voice 

Everyone has a story to tell, and writing it down can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. This new book explores the craft of creating a memoir by bringing together essential ingredients such as authentic voice, character and conflict, and offers techniques for engaging your readers and making the truth more compelling than fiction.

A companion to bestselling author Elisa Hategan's memoir-writing workshop, this book walks you through a simple, yet powerful framework of identifying key events and memories of your life and shaping them into a chronological narrative. 

This guidebook covers all aspects of memoir craft: writing about loss, love, a physical or spiritual journey, trauma, abuse or healing, or simply preserving your parents' memory into a story. 

PLEASE NOTE: To pre-register or request information about my upcoming six-week writing course The Magic of Memoir: Discover the Power of Finding Your Voice, please email me directly for the syllabus. The course is limited to six participants. Cost: $249 for a 6-week intensive, which covers partial editorial review of your manuscript and rewriting assistance.