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Tim Hildebrand’s acting career stretches from Caronport to Cannes

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
August 29, 2017
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I wrote this article for Refined Saskatoon; you can see it in the context of the magazine here. Back in 2007, I performed with Tim in Beauty and the Beast at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, the very first show in the then brand-new theatre. (Our Beast was Paul Alexander Nolan, currently heading to Broadway again …

The Cityborn is out! Reviews, interviews, and more…

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
July 8, 2017
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The Cityborn, my eighth novel for DAW Books (though only the fourth under my own name) officially released on July 4. All of the United States celebrated with fireworks, which was nice. This is an ongoing post that I’ll update as new things appear online. It’s been getting some nice attention! It made Inverse Entertainment’s …

Paul Alexander Nolan: From small-town Saskatchewan to Broadway’s bright lights

By Edward Willett in Blog, Music
May 2, 2017
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This article just appeared in Refined Lifestyles Regina. I’ve known Paul since he was a kid–I performed with him several times back then, and have even had the chance to be in a professional show with him once, when he played the Beast in Persephone Theatre‘s production of Beauty and the Beast in Saskatoon …

My interview with internationally known artist Andrew Salgado

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
March 2, 2017
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Twenty-five years ago, at the age of 10, Andrew Salgado was just another kid who’d decided to take art classes at Regina’s Neil Balkwill Centre. Today he’s a celebrated and critically acclaimed artist whose last 11 solo exhibitions (in cities as diverse as London, New York, Miami and Cape Town) have sold out, and who …

A long, in-depth interview with…moi! (Trigger warning: includes questions about religion and politics)

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
December 5, 2016
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Recently Everitt Foster over the blog A Natural Reaction asked me to answer some questions for an online interview, one of a series he’s been conducting with authors who have been early adopters of the new social media platform Gab, a would-be Twitter rival. (My handle over there is ewillett.) You can read the interview …

An interview with Atom Egoyan

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
November 8, 2016
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Last week I interviewed world-renowned film (and stage and opera) director Atom Egoyan, in connection with the first North American showing of his art installation “Steenbeckett” at Regina’s MacKenzie Art Gallery. The 750-word article I wrote will appear in the next issue of Refined Lifestyles Magazine, but I thought I’d take advantage of my blog …

What does writing success mean to me?

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
October 30, 2016
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The Flames of Nevyana blog tour has wrapped up! The final two stops of note were this long review of the book from Jorie Loves a Story (too long and detailed to easily excerpt, so read it in situ), and an interview from Melissa Yaun-Innes’s blog, of which here’s a large chunk (Just in time for …

A Q&A at Chapter by Chapter

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
October 27, 2016
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Yesterday’s stop in the Flames of Nevyana blog tour was at the host site, Chapter by Chapter, and featured a Q&A (plus an excerpt and link to the giveaway!) Describe your book in 140 characters or less (like a Tweet) Three teenagers must overcome their mutual mistrust to save their land when the sacred secrets …

A long interview with me from Books Chatter

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
October 22, 2016
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The Flames of Nevyana blog tour continued today with this long interview at Books Chatter. I had fun answering these questions. A very warm welcome to Edward Willett (a.k.a. E.C. Blake); thank you for joining us on BooksChatter! What was the inspiration for Flames of Nevyana? “I was driving from my home town of Regina, …

Flames of Nevyana blog tour begins today: here’s the first interview

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
October 17, 2016
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The Flames of Nevyana blog tour begins today (full schedule here), and it kicks off in grand style with a fun interview I did for Susan Heim on Writing. Susan is also running a giveaway, so head over there to enter that if you’d interested in a free copy of Flames of Nevyana (and who …

Answering some questions about writing

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
March 2, 2016
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I was recently asked, by someone on Facebook, several questions about writing, and I though the answers might be of general interest. And so here they are! How do you decide what ideas/characters/plots/etc. are good? Or which to keep? Hmmm. Of course, I think they’re all good. When I was starting out and writing everything …

My daughter Alice on CBC Radio

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 27, 2016
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Very proud of my daughter, Alice, who with fellow cast member Logan Weir gave a great interview on CBC Radio this morning (on Saskatchewan Weekend with Shauna Powers) about Do It With Class Young People’s Theatre‘s current production of Grimm Tales. I just happened to record it and you can listen to it here!