On July 1, I had the honour to lead the singing of “O Canada” at the Lieutenant Governor’s Garden Party at Government House in celebration of Canada Day. And here’s a video! Here I am …
My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, already a finalist for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards and finalist for a 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division, has just been …
Had a great time being part of the cast of Regina Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I played Fogg (the insane asylum keeper) and also sang in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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Writing Diary: July 28 & 29
Not very productive, these last two days. Tuesday I got very little done because I had one of those eye exams where they dilate your pupils–which meant, I discovered, while I could read text on the 19-inch desktop computer monitor, I couldn’t read it on my laptop when I took it down to Second Cup to work and I couldn’t read the papers that have the source material for the Orson Scott Card biography.
Yesterday was a bit better; I worked on a short story at Second Cup and did some OSC work, although more in the way of composing additional questions and skimming some of the books I have by and about him than actual writing.
*Sigh.* Well, there’s always today…and the weekend…
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