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 …
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 …
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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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