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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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?