It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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Soulworm, my first published novel (originally released by Royal Fireworks Press in 1997), is now available in a brand-new, lightly revised edition from Shadowpaw Press Reprise. You can purchase it at one of these links …
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In Calgary for Westercon
There’s been no posting for the past couple of days because we’ve been travelling, first to Drumheller to see the Royal Tyrrell Museum (that’s me and Alice out front, about to get eaten) then to Calgary for Westercon, which starts tonight. I’ll be pretty busy but hope to post a blog comment now and then as the weekend goes along.
Among other things, I’ll be singing The Road Goes Ever On, the song cycle featuring J.R.R. Tolkien’s poems set to music by Donald Swann (of the great music-hall comedy duo Flanders and Swann) on Friday night. I’ve also been asked to sing the cameo part of the Mustard Man in Once More With Feeling (the Buffy musical) and the Wagner Elf in Once More With Hobbits (a Tolkienish take on the same songs). Then I’ve got a reading, an autograph session, and numerous panels–lots to keep me out of trouble!
More later…
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