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Welcome to the new, improved edwardwillett.com!
For a long, long time I've wanted to consolidate the bulk of my web activities under my main domain name, edwardwillett.com. After experimentation and thought, I finally decided WordPress was the logical way to go...and that I needed professional help. (No wise cracks, please!) At just about the time I came to that conclusion, Justine Larbelestier's new site went live. I liked the look of it, and she seemd pleased with the service she had gotten from PagedMedia, which specializes in writers' sites. So I contacted Stephanie Leary there and we began the process of designing the new, improved, edwardwillett.com. And now, just in time for the launch of Terra Insegura, here it is! It's much cleaner and ...Just because I haven’t done it before…
...here's my name via Erik Kastner's "Spell with flickr" app: ...Huh?
I just happened to notice the Google ads running alongside the two sample chapters of Marseguro on my website:Desiring Lord appearing?Expecting Lord’s return? A pleasant surprise is awaiting youhttp://www.hidden-advent.org/The Crucifixion of Jesus& the Truth About What Happened to the Catholic Church After VaticanIIhttp://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/Jesus Christ's Real StoryWho Was Jesus Christ & What Did He Really Teach? Find Out In Free Bookhttp://www.gnmagazine.org/CatholicYour Catholicism guide on the web. ...Food on the Web
This week's CBC Web column (the last of the series)...***“What’s for dinner?” is a question whose answer can inspire joy, dread, or simply ennui. We all have our favorite recipes, and a few that are far from our favorites. But we get tired of even our favorite things if we get them night after night. And we get tired of our least-favorite things even faster.What to do? Why, turn to the Internet, of course.Back when home computers were first being talked about, it was always said you could keep your recipes on them. Now we’ve come full circle with recipes on the World Wide Web...and then some. After all, with a ...The past through the Web
This week's (and the second-last--it's wrapping up at the end of this month) CBC Web column...***"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” author L.P. Hartley famously wrote to begin his 1953 novel The Go-Between. And like most foreign countries, while we might not want to live there, we often enjoy visiting it.And where better to visit it than on the World Wide Web, which, I've decided for the sake of a metaphor, is rapidly becoming the world’s attic. It’s the place where you put old things you don’t quite know what to do with but aren’t willing to get rid of, with the big difference that, unlike your attic, the ...Theatre on the Web
Last week's CBC Web column...***The gala opening of the new Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon last week had Saskatchewan people thinking about live theatre.Of course, I think about live theatre all the time, since I’m often involved in one production or another as an actor or director, so this week I compiled a collection of links to sites on the Internet you can go to when you, too, want to know more about theatre.I started right here in Saskatchewan with our two premiere professional companies, Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon and Globe Theatre in Regina.At both sites, as you would expect, you can read about current and upcoming productions, buy ...Nature puts its archives online!
This is cool: the great science magazine Nature is putting its entire archives, all the way back to issue one, number one in 1869 (which I wrote a column about years ago when I came across a facsimile copy at the Saskatchewan Science Centre) online.You can browse it to see what's in each issue, but you can't, unfortunately, access the complete articles for free:Access is by site license for institutions, or articles can be purchased individually.However, you can visit History of the Journal Nature for a multimedia celebration of the journal's history.This BBC story has more.(Via MedGadget.)Blogging!
Today's Web column for CBC's Afternoon Edition...***Over the past few years the growing use of computers and the Internet has contributed a lot of weird new words to our language. People talk about ROM and RAM and “megs of memory,” Googling and websurfing and more. But one of the weirdest words of all is blog, which sounds more like something you have to clean up—“Dear, the dog left a big blog on the sidewalk, can you take care of it?”—than anything to do with computers.But, in fact, blogging is big—and you can try it yourself for free.A blog is simply a series of posts that are displayed on a web page ...Book sites
Here's this week's CBC Web column...***Books make great Christmas presents...at least, the right book does. But with so many books out there, how do you find the good ones?Well, the World Wide Web is a good place to start. There are hundreds of good book sites on the Web. In fact, there are scads of them. Mountains of them. Cascades of them...(to paraphrase Cogsworth from Beauty and the Beast talking about the Beast’s library).A good place to start is BookSpot, which is, in its own words, “a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized ...Witches and vampires and ghosts, oh, my!
This week's CBC Web column...Download the audio version.*****Orange leaf bags with grinning jack-o’-lantern faces cover the lawns. The drugstore shelves are groaning under the weight of grinning skulls, leering witches, and dancing robot mummies, and you can hardly buy groceries without getting a dangling plastic bat caught in your hair.That must mean Hallowe’en is just around the corner, and what better time to delve into some of the darker, spookier corners of the World Wide Web?There are a deluge of devilish delights, a cornucopia of creepy confections and gobs of ghoulish goodness to be found online, if that sort of thing appeals to you. If, on the other hand, you’re put off by the merest mention of magic, monsters, ...
Edward Willett is a The Shards of Excalibur, Book 1: Song of the Sword
My new YA fantasy novel, coming in October from Lobster Press
Before the Lady called her, Ariane’s life was a mess. Two years ago, her mother disappeared. She bounced around different foster homes until her aunt finally took her in. The meanest clique at her new high school has decided to make Ariane their prime target. And to top it all off, she is having frightening premonitions, and they are becoming more intense. The moment water touches her skin, she sees visions of a lake, a lady, and a sword. When a staircase opens up in the middle of Wascana Lake and the water begins singing to her, she has no choice but to answer the call….
Marseguro
Winner of the 2009 Prix Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English
Water world Marseguro is home to the Selkies, a water-dwelling race created from human DNA. When an unmodified human seeks revenge on a Selkie by activating a distress beacon taken from the remains of the original colony ship, a strikeforce is sent from Earth to eradicate the genetic abomination. Yet Marseguro will not prove as easy to conquer as the Earth force anticipates…
Terra Insegura
Finalist for the 2010 Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in English
Marseguro, a water world far from Earth, is home to a colony of humans and the Selkies, a water-dwelling race created from modified human DNA. For seventy years the colony has lived in peace. Then Earth discovers Marseguro, and a strike force is sent to eradicate this “abomination.” But Marseguro has created a genetically tailored plague to use against Earth’s Holy Warriors. With the enemy defeated, the people of Marseguro feel they are safe. But Chris Keating, the traitor who signaled Marseguro’s location to the Holy Warriors, has fled to Earth, unknowingly carrying the deadly plague within him. The people of Marseguro feel they must send a ship to Earth with a life-saving vaccine. Only time will tell what awaits them when they reach their destination.
Lost in Translation
Kathryn was a human empath whose world and life had been destroyed when the alien S’sinn slaughtered her parents before her very eyes. Jarrikk was a young S’sinn, an unproven warrior who’d seen his flight mates slaughtered by the humans who’d sought to colonize his world.
As humans and S’sinn found themselves on the brink of war, these two Translators had to work together to find a common ground and avert catastrophe. But whether their Translators’ oath and training could overcome the enemies leagued against them was very much in doubt…
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Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw
Ten walks to points of historic and architectural interest in the cities of Regina and Moose Jaw (eight walks for Regina, two for Moose Jaw).
Disease-Hunting Scientist
The true stories of six real disease hunters. Epidemiologists travel the world trying to keep us safe from deadly diseases—from high-tech labs in Canada to remote villages in Africa. Learn how these “disease detectives” are coming up with new ways to fight disease, and find out if you have what it takes to become an epidemiologist, too!
The Bounty Mutiny
The Bounty was a British ship visiting Tahiti in 1789 when some of the crew overthrew the captain, William Bligh, and set him adrift in a tiny boat with sailors loyal to him. The mutiny resulted in a number of trials–both of the men who mutinied and of Bligh for losing command of his ship. These fascinating events have been the source for numerous Hollywood movies, most recently The Bounty. The Bounty Mutiny: From the Court Case to the Movie explores the famous case and the movies it inspired.
