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Praise for Paths to the Stars from Saskatchewan Book Awards jurors

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
May 2, 2019
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Paths to the Stars was shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards this year (my eighth book to be shortlisted): the City of Regina Book Award for best book by a Regina author, and the Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Award, for best work of fiction. Although it didn’t win (you can see the complete list of winners here, and …

Paths to the Stars shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book Awards

By Edward Willett in Books, Writing and Editing
February 14, 2019
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Thrilled to announce that Paths to the Stars, my collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories, the initial release from my own Shadowpaw Press, has been shortlisted in two categories for this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards. The book, which features twenty-two short stories, most previously published but a few published for the first time, …

Great review of Paths to the Stars in Resource Links

By Edward Willett in Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
January 7, 2019
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This great review by Leslie Vermeer of Paths to the Stars just appeared in Resource Links (“Connecting Classrooms, Libraries, and Canadian Learning Resources”): “Many students get their start as serious readers of science fiction and fantasy (SFF) in junior high or early senior high. Often they read the classics in the genre without ever realizing …

Two more great reviews for Paths to the Stars

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
September 22, 2018
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Paths to the Stars, my collection of short stories, continues to get good reviews! Writing at The Future Fire, Lisa Timpf says: “Willett’s short story collection has much to offer. Between the pages of Paths to the Stars, readers will find both inner and outer journeys. Some of the characters find what they are hoping for, …

Five-star review for Paths to the Stars

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
September 19, 2018
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Just came across a great five-star review on Goodreads of Paths of the Stars, penned (pixelled?) by Toby Welch. Some excerpts: “In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve read Willett’s work before. I’ve enjoyed every novel of his that I’ve consumed and hoped that his latest work would reach the same high bar. It didn’t …

New short-story collection Paths to the Stars now available!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
July 10, 2018
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My new short-story collection, Paths to the Stars: Twenty-Two Fantastical Tales of Imagination, has just been released by Shadowpaw Press. The stories in it span my writing career–the oldest is one I wrote at age 19 (or possibly 18, I’m not sure) at Harding University; the newest just came out earlier this year. They’re roughly …

Announcing Shadowpaw Press

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
June 20, 2018
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Like many authors, I’ve got a few projects that I’d like to get out into the wide world for which I do not have a publisher handy, and so I am turning to my own publishing resources–something far easier to do today than ever before. Rather than simply self-publish, however, I’ve decided to go the …

Cover reveal: Paths to the Stars, my short-story collection

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
February 26, 2018
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I’m getting very close to releasing my short-story collection, Paths to the Stars. It brings together almost all of my published, and a few of my unpublished, short stories, going all the way back to the beginnings of my writing career, up through “Textente Tela Veneris,” just released in the Planetary: Venus anthology from Superversive …

Short story in new anthology Planetary: Venus

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
February 26, 2018
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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 …

Excited to have a story in upcoming anthology The Sum of Us!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
March 18, 2017
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I’m pleased to announce I’ll have a story, “The Mother’s Keepers,” in this upcoming anthology, The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. Here’s how it’s described: The world of caregivers and unsung heroes, the province of ghosts . . . If we believe that …

Another Seven-Sentence Short Story

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
September 7, 2016
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At When Words Collide in Calgary this summer I once again conducted a Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop, and had more people in it than ever before–30 or so, I’d guesstimate. This is a plotting exercise created by SF writer/high school teacher James Van Pelt, and it works great in this setting. Below is my story written …

Week 7 of the Great Book Giveaway: enter and get another free short story!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Giveaways
March 29, 2014
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Neil from Saskatoon was the winner of last week’s book giveaway. Now it’s time to start Week 7. The rules remain the same. Simply comment on this post, reply to one of the posts I’ll put on Facebook on both my Edward Willett and E.C. Blake pages, or reTweet one of the Tweets I’ll post …