Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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The first sentence I wrote today…
…had nothing to do with the new novel. I’m now concentrating on finishing up my children’s biography of Janis Joplin, which is what this is from:
She arrived home in Port Arthur in May, 1965, and, wrote her sister Laura, “We welcomed her with open arms.”
I should have this out of the way by the beginning of next week. I’m also working on some stuff for the Saskatchewan Science Centre and a book called Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw for Red Deer Press, and I’ve got an outline for another book for Enslow to prepare and the new novel to revise and I’m keynote speaker next week at the annual meeting of the Consulting Engineers of Saskatchewan and on Tuesday there’s the official launch of A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan, and of course there are the weekly science columns and general website and blog maintenance and there’s still a lot of work to do around the house and I’ve got two school readings coming up in Yorkton early in December and there’s going to be a bunch of concerts and things and dinners and stuff and winetastings and so on and we’re going to Aladdin at the Centre of the Arts (sorry, Conexus Arts Centre) and Just So Stories at the Globe and there are auditions for Regina Lyric Light Opera’s musical brunch coming up and…
…and people wonder why I don’t watch much TV. Sheesh!
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Gee, what’s a guy gotta do to get some sympathy around here? 🙂
Oh yes, you’re dripping sheer misery…