My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, release on January 23, with The Headmasters by Mark Morton releasing two weeks later, on …
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
As I post this, it’s the morning after the opening night performance of Regina Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, in which I play Fogg and also sing …
Fireboy is a Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice nominee
My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
Fireboy and The Worldshapers are Aurora Award finalists
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
He Came, He Fell, He Conquered: A Seven-Sentence Short Story
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
For Easter: listen to me sing “Forever”
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
Read my Aurora-eligible story “Quid est Veritas?”
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
Tag: short fiction
New books from Shadowpaw Press
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Podcast, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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December 31, 2023
- 11 mins to read
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Short story in new anthology Planetary: Venus
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
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February 26, 2018
- 2 mins to read
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I have a new short story out, in the anthology Planetary: Venus from Superversive Press. Here’s a description of the anthology: Venus, the second planet from the sun, a world of sulfurous gas and tremendous temperatures where the landscape features—mountains and valleys—are all named for love goddesses. Venus herself is the goddess most known for …
Saturday Special from the Vaults: Follow a Song
- By Edward Willett in Blog, The Vaults
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March 3, 2012
- 25 mins to read
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Last Saturday I posted the opening to the first novel I wrote, when I was 14 years old. This week we jump ahead four or five years to when I was attending Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas (that’s a photo of the library). This story, “Follow a Song,” was a winner in the school’s annual …
Belated Saturday Special from the Vaults: Landscape with Alien
- By Edward Willett in Blog
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December 26, 2011
- 9 mins to read
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This week’s (two-days-late-because-of-Christmas) Saturday special from the vaults is an unpublished short story that won an award in the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s short fiction competition sometime in the 1990s…I think. If I’m remembering right. It never found a publisher, but I used to read it at school and library readings from time to time, though …
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