The Tangled Stars, my far-future humorous space opera coming out from DAW Books in October, has now officially appeared on the Penguin Random House Canada website, which means this is the official blurb. No cover …
It’s taken a while, but Faces, the third book in the Masks of Aygrima triolgy, is coming out in audiobook firnat to join the audiobooks of the first two, Masks and Shadows. All are produced by Recorded …
I’m pleased to announce that I’m a finalist for two Aurora Awards this year. Star Song is a finalist for the Best Young Adult Novel Award, while my podcast, The Worldshapers, is a finalist, for …
Each of the past two years I’ve successfully Kickstarted an anthology featuring authors who were guests of my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, where I talk to other science fiction and fantasy authors about the …
But even before that, I’m open to submissions for Shadowpaw Press’s Reprise imprint of rights-reverted, previously published books by authors who (like me) may have had novels or nonfiction orphaned by the collapse of one …
Shapers of Worlds Volume II, the anthology I Kickstarted earlier this year featuring short fiction by authors who were guests during the second year of my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available pretty …
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Coming soon to a comic book near you: Opera Man!
Check out this headline: “Opera is new weapon in fight against crime.”
Am I the only one who sees a potential new caped (or, possibly, horned) crusader waiting to be brought to comic-book life? He doesn’t fight criminals: he drives them away with the power of his Puccini, the weight of his Wagner, the might of his Mozart, the vigor of his Verdi, the–well, you get the idea.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/01/coming-soon-to-a-comic-book-near-you-opera-man/
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I love this idea! Perhaps on a smaller scale I can try it around the house on my own kids in, say, the room with the Playstation. Oh wait…my kids like opera. They like all music.
Here’s another thought, then. I will rig music to play from my cleaning cupboard. Every time the kids reach for the Comet, The White Stripes will play, or maybe The Black Eyed Peas.
Never mind the kids. I think I’d like it too!