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 …
The official press release from the publisher says it all: Award-winning Canadian author, and host of The Worldshapers podcast, Edward Willett, is joining the Tuscany Bay Books family in 2026 with his The Helix War series. Tuscany Bay Books …
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They like me, they really like me!
Just heard from my agent that DAW is going to buy my proposed sequel to Marseguro, working title Terra Insegura.
Woo-hoo!
Watch for the return of “the first sentence I wrote today” in the very near future…
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Sweet!
Marseguro doesn’t end ambiguously–it’s quite complete in and of itself–but it definitely ends with a “And then what happened?” feel. But don’t worry: the sequel won’t be five years in the making. We were hoping to get it out by fall of 2008, but I don’t think I can make the necessary deadline, so it’ll probably be out in early 2009. After that, though, if DAW keeps wanting my stuff, I hope to start doing two books a year. I can see one more book in the Marseguro universe past the planned sequel, if they want another one, but I don’t think it’ll be an open-ended series.
Congrats! Does that mean Marseguro ends ambiguously? And how long would I have to wait for the sequel if I got Marseguro in January? Not that I’m impatient or anything, but right now I’m waiting for Christopher Paolini’s Empire and Chris Walley’s conclusion to The Lamb Among The Stars series… this after devouring Deathly Hallows in about 8 hours…. I knew when I read Hominids that I’d be with it to the end. All this to say that if you’re going to tease us with the promise of a sequel, I’m hoping it won’t be 5 years in the making… please?
Excellent! Congratulations!
Big congratulations, Ed!