The Shards of Excalibur audiobooks, narrated by the wonderful Elizabeth Klett, are now available again after being off the market for a short while. Best of all, while they’re once more on Audible.com and Audible.ca, you …
The official press release from the publisher says it all: Award-winning Canadian author, and host of The Worldshapers podcast, Edward Willett, is joining the Tuscany Bay Books family in 2026 with his The Helix War series. Tuscany Bay Books …
It’s been quite the year for reprints of some of my older novels, thanks to modern technology, and now there’s another: Magebane, the stand-alone steampunk-tinged fantasy I originally wrote for DAW Books, under the pseudonym …
Fairly hard on the heels of the new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, I’ve now released a new edition of the first of my novels published by DAW Books in New York. …
I’ve been meaning to create a new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, for a long time, and I finally did it, bringing it out in paperback and ebook (and AI-narrated audiobook) through …
I really can’t believe I neglected to highlight this one when it came out! Shapers of Worlds Volume V is, of course, the fifth (and final) installment in a series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy …
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The first sentence I wrote today…
Finding the boat had been a stroke of luck, Emily thought.
Current word count: 43,754
New words this session: 2,452
Percentage of novel completed: 43.7
Today’s total wasn’t entirely written at Second Cup, for a change. I wrote half at Second Cup, then half in the Foggy Dew, the Irish pub I mentioned before that’s attached to the hotel. Purely in the spirit of scientific investigation, I decided to find out if Russell’s Cream Ale would help with the creative process. The jury is still out and I may have to conduct the experiment again in order to gather more data.
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