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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The first paragraph I wrote today was…
In 2178, Earth experienced a miracle. A 10-kilometre-wide asteroid on a collision course with the planet was struck inside the orbit of the moon by another asteroid on a near-miss trajectory. The main masses of both asteroids missed Earth. Ten million people died worldwide as pieces from the shattered rocks slammed into cities and oceans and farmland–but billions who might otherwise have died lived.
This might, or might not, be part of my proposal for my next novel…I’m still throwing words and ideas around inside my head and word processor, hoping that, rather like the asteroids in the passage above, they will miraculously come together, though in a rather less disasterous fashion (I hope).
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