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 …
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 …
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Me, beginning to see the light
I don’t post pictures of myself very often, but here’s one: this is me singing in Weyburn on Friday the 13th for a Rotary Club fundraising event called Homegrown. Since I’m holding the mike in this slightly fuzzy shot, I must have been singing “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” Most of the others I sang were Broadway tunes, including “Some Enchanted Evening,” “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “Me” (from Beauty and the Beast), and “Old Man River.” I also sang “Morning Has Broken” and that Flanders and Swann classic “Have Some Madeira, M’Dear.” April Sampson, whom I’ve known for many, many years, accompanied me (she’s also the one who asked me to come down and sing). As the rural correspondents for the Weyburn Review used to say, “A good time was had by all.”
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I don’t post pictures of myself very often, but here’s one: this is me singing in Weyburn on Friday the 13th for a Rotary Club fundraising event called Homegrown. Since I’m holding the mike in this slightly fuzzy shot, I must have been singing “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” Most of the others I sang were Broadway tunes, including “Some Enchanted Evening,” “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “Me” (from Beauty and the Beast), and “Old Man River.” I also sang “Morning Has Broken” and that Flanders and Swann classic “Have Some Madeira, M’Dear.” April Sampson, whom I’ve known for many, many years, accompanied me (she’s also the one who asked me to come down and sing). As the rural correspondents for the Weyburn Review used to say, “A good time was had by all.”
