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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Where do you get your ideas?
From stories like this one, about NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft, scheduled to launch on December 30 and to fire a copper projectile into the surface of comet Tempel 1 on July 4.
The 372-kilogram “impactor” will hit at approximately 37,000 kph and could leave a crater the size of a football field.
Which immediately got me thinking. What if the comet isn’t really a comet, but an alien spacecraft disguised as a comet, quietly observing Earth to see if humans are dangerous…and we’re about to attack it?
I fear the alien invasion fleet won’t be long in coming…
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