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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He likes it! He really likes it!
I’ve mentioned that I’ve been working on a couple of synopses for possible novels (one a sequel to Lost in Translation, one completely new) for submission to my agent, Ethan Ellenberg. I finally polished those up and sent them off yesterday, and had a phone call this morning–he likes them!
Keep your fingers crossed for me that my new editor at DAW Books likes them, too…
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Well, let’s see…
In A Time to Reap, the working title to the Lost in Translation sequel, I reveal the mystery of where the empaths featured in the first book came from and continue the adventures of my telepathically linked main two characters, the batlike S’sinn Jarrikk and the human Kathryn Bircher, pretty much from where they left off.
In Baptism, the working title for the proposed stand-alone book, a functionary of the tyrannical Body Purified discovers the genetically modified humans his grandfather spirited away from Earth aren’t what he expected, and has to make some hard decisions.
Those aren’t exactly details, but details are likely to change if/when the books actually get written, anyway. Besides, I wouldn’t want to give too much away.
‘Grats! Are you allowed to leak details?