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 …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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What do writers listen to while writing?
Strange Horizons’s James Schellenberg asked several SF writers what they listen to while writing, and if music ever inspires them to write.
Nobody asked me, oddly enough–but then, the answer would be I really don’t like having music playing while I’m writing–about the only time I want music in the background is when I’m driving or, sometimes, eating. If the music is worth playing at all, surely it is worth a large portion of my attention. As for being inspired by music…well, indirectly. I don’t get ideas for stories from music, or at least I haven’t so far, but music can inspire me to write by putting me in the mood to attempt to create something that will have the emotional impact of great music…though I doubt I have ever achieved that ideal.
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