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 …
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 …
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The first sentence I wrote today…
The subs from Jumpoff Station hadn’t yet arrived when Emily and Farley and their unexpectedly still-living prisoner reached the shattered pier.
Current word count: 66,153
New words this session: 1,413
Percentage of novel completed: 66.1
Got in an hour today after the wine and food festival wrapped up. It was a fabulous time as always, but a bit wearing. Much as I enjoy the tastings and the food, by the end of the final lunch I’m more than ready to sit quietly somewhere with a nice uncomplicated drink that doesn’t require you to think so much…which is exactly what I did, working on the new novel in the old lobby of the hotel with a nice simple Diet Pepsi at hand while a piano player tinkled the ivories not too far away.
Back to Regina tomorrow, if the roads cooperate. They had a fairly substantial snowfall here in Banff last night and I fear we’ll be chasing the system all the way to Saskatchewan.
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