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 had a good response: two stars on Tangent Online’s 2025 Recommended Reading List, for example. At the time the anthology …

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My Aurora-eligible work for 2025: read my eligible short story online!

The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany Bay Books) and The Worldshapers podcast, and have been shortlisted several other times. If you’d like to nominate and/or vote for the …

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Available again: my modern-day Civil War-themed middle-grade ghost story The Haunted Horn

Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost story with a Civil War theme. Set in Arkansas (where I went to university–Harding University, to be exact, B.A. in …

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Shards of Excalibur audiobooks available again, and this time, in many more places

The Shards of Excalibur audiobooks, narrated by the wonderful Elizabeth Klett, are now available again after being off the market for a short while. Best of all, while they’re once more on Audible.com and Audible.ca, you can also find them in many other audiobook stores, such as Apple’s and Kobo’s. Or, better yet, download them directly …

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Marseguro and Terra Insegura find a new home, and the long-delayed third book in the series will finally come out!

The official press release from the publisher says it all: Award-winning Canadian author, and host of The Worldshapers podcast, Edward Willett, is joining the Tuscany Bay Books family in 2026 with his The Helix War series. Tuscany Bay Books will be re-releasing new editions of the first two books of the series, Marseguro, which won the 2009 Aurora Award, honoring Canadian science …

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New edition of Magebane now available!

It’s been quite the year for reprints of some of my older novels, thanks to modern technology, and now there’s another: Magebane, the stand-alone steampunk-tinged fantasy I originally wrote for DAW Books, under the pseudonym Lee Arthur Chane, and which (he said modestly) received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. As with Lost in Translation, …

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A new edition of my first DAW Books science fiction novel, Lost in Translation

Fairly hard on the heels of the new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, I’ve now released a new edition of the first of my novels published by DAW Books in New York. Lost in Translation was first published by Five Star Books in hardcover, strictly for the library market. DAW picked it …

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A new edition of my award-shortlisted YA novel The Dark Unicorn available now!

I’ve been meaning to create a new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, for a long time, and I finally did it, bringing it out in paperback and ebook (and AI-narrated audiobook) through my Endless Sky Books. Here are some links, but it is widely distributed, so you should be able to get …

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Final Shapers of Worlds anthology has been out for a while now . . .

I really can’t believe I neglected to highlight this one when it came out! Shapers of Worlds Volume V is, of course, the fifth (and final) installment in a series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers. (Which, by the way, was once again a finalist for …

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My latest! Middle-grade/YA modern-day fantasy Fireboy

My latest novel, the middle-grade/younger YA modern-day fantasy Fireboy, is now available everywhere! Buy it wherever you buy books, or have your local bookstore or library order it in! Or, get it directly from Shadowpaw Press in either ebook or print. ISBN: 978-1998273423 – 240pp – $22.99 print – $6.99 ebook. “I knew things were …

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Enjoy my rendition of “O Holy Night”

Last night, I had the privilege of performing one of my favourite Christmas songs, “O Holy Night,” for Westhill Park Baptist Church’s Christmas Eve service. And here’s my performance! I hope you enjoy it. Also, apparently a bright-red sweater confused the camera no end…

Listen to me read “A Visit from St. Nicholas”

Andy Philp, host of The Philp Side on CJTR Community Radio here in Regina, asked me to record “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore (better known by it’s first line, “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” It aired in the final half-hour of his December 21, 2024, program…and here it is now, for …

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