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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The first sentence I wrote today (Saturday)…
The lights from Jumpoff Station provided plenty of illumination this close to the giant spheres, but not far away the darkness lurked, waiting for them.
Current word count: 55,954
New words this session: 991
Percentage of novel completed: 55.9
Most of today was spent on moving (except for going to the Regina Symphony Orchestra concert tonight and a brief playground interlude with my daughter). All my desktop computer equipment is now in my new office, but I still have my laptop in my old office and I left the wireless router in place so I have Internet access. I should still have access through tomorrow evening. Monday is the actual move-the-furniture day, and my high-speed access won’t be in place in the new office until Tuesday midday, so I’ll probably fall silent for a day and a half or so.
Although you never know. I do have other methods. There’s something called “dial-up” for instance…
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