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 sentence I wrote today…
She headed off in an entirely different direction, and shortly thereafter faded from the display altogether as she moved out of sonar range.
Current word count: 47,858
New words this session: 2,707
Percentage of novel completed: 47.8
The halfway point nears…
A mixture of Second Cup and Foggy Dew writing today, interspersed with several hours of working on the children’s biography of Janis Joplin I’m writing for Enslow Publishers. I’ve certainly gotten quite a bit of work done on this first day of my self-imposed two-day writers’ retreat. With the science fiction convention over, it’s not like there’s a lot else to do in an airport hotel in Richmond, B.C. than to write.
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