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New omnibus ebook edition of The Shards of Excalibur series

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
December 23, 2022
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For the first time, you can now buy the entire Shards of Excalibur series in a single omnibus ebook! Just released by Shadowpaw Press, this includes the latest editions of the books, and costs only half as much as buying all five ebooks separately! Available on Amazon (and soon everywhere else) or directly from Shadowpaw Press. …

New releases: Right to Know and Falcon’s Egg (the Peregrine Rising space-opera duology)

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
November 21, 2020
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Right to Know and Falcon’s Egg, which collectively make up my Peregrine Rising space-opera duology, are now available in brand-new ebook editions from Shadowpaw Press for the low, low price of just $3.99 CDN ($2.99 US) each. Both were originally published by Bundoran Press (Right to Know in 2013 and Falcon’s Egg in 2015). The …

New ebook editions of The Shards of Excalibur now available!

By Edward Willett in Audiobooks, Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
July 8, 2020
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Get an autographed set of the Shards of Excalibur series for only CDN $49.99!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
June 30, 2020
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For a limited time, the complete Shards of Excalibur series is available for just CDN $49.99, autographed by the author! That’s a $25 saving off the list price of $74.75. These are the Coteau Books editions. With the recent demise of Coteau Books, new editions of all five books in the series will be forthcoming from Shadowpaw Press, …

New release: From the Street to the Stars (Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, Book 1)

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
June 20, 2020
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The latest release from my Shadowpaw Press is the completely revised new edition of Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, Book 1, now titled From the Street to the Stars. You can download the ebook version directly from Shadowpaw Press: From the Street to the Stars (Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, Book 1) Amazon.com | Amazon.ca …

Five-star review for I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Poetry
July 19, 2018
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Jim Bennett, who reviews poetry for KBR (The Kindle Book Review) and is himself a poet, liked I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust rather a lot, giving it five out of five stars: “Willett writes speculative fiction, so these poems are unusual. They are also a lot of fun. Willett’s illustrator, Wendi Nordell, has added to …

Illustrated collection of science fiction/fantasy poetry released!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
April 28, 2018
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I Tumble through the Diamond Dust, my new collection of fantastical (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) poems, illustrated by Alberta artist Wendi Nordell (my talented niece), is now available in both print and ebook formats! Buy it from Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, Kobo, or the Apple store in ebook format, or in print through Chapters/Indigo or the …

The tangled tale of how my YA fantasy Spirit Singer was born, died, and is being resurrected

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
January 2, 2013
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Let’s step into the wayback machine, and set it for the turn of the century… In that long-ago time, ebooks were in their infancy. There were dedicated ebook-reading devices, but practically nobody had them. (Although I did: a Hiebook. Read a lot of David Weber on it through Baen’s free ebook library.) There were ebook …

Saturday Special: The First Two Chapters of The Haunted Horn

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books
July 21, 2012
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For this week’s Saturday Special, the first chapter of the YA/middle-grade ghost story The Haunted Horn, which I’ve just released to Kindle (other ebook formats and eventually print to follow). It’s set in Arkansas, where I went to university, although Searcy bears only a passing resemblance to the Oak Bluff of the story (although both …

Ebooks! Get your red-hot ebooks! Spirit Singer! Andy Nebula! and The Chosen!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books
March 23, 2012
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I was an early adopter when it came to ebooks in more ways than one. I owned a very early dedicated ebook reader, the HieBook, and read a ton of stuff on it. But I was …

The science of ebooks vs. print books

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
October 24, 2011
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[podcast]https://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/10/Ebooks-vs-Print-Books.mp3[/podcast] Once upon a time, the word “book” meant only one thing: a stack of paper printed with text and bound together along one edge. These days, though, the word “book” has developed two meanings. You can still read a bound-stack-of-paper book, but you can also read a book without ever touching anything that was …

My ebook odyssey

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 17, 2011
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All the cool kids are writing about their experiences with ebooks these days, and since I’ve long aspired to be cool (though, alas, I have yet to reach that exalted state) I thought I would give a brief account of my own experiences as writer and reader of same. I take you back to those …