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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My favorite email of the year…
…came from a teacher in a school I visited not too long ago. The book of mine in question is Marseguro:
Your books have become the absolute fascination of a young boy in Grade 10 who is self-proclaimed to be a non-reader! (He) exclaims about his novel, your novel, every day in English class. He can’t get enough of it! I told him today that there is at least one more novel in the library that you wrote, and then I went and found it for him. He is no longer afraid to finish the first, fearing it will be the last…
We are presently studying The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, and he is finding the parallels amazing. I have truly never seen him get so excited about a book before. He can’t believe it himself.
Thank you for writing for our youth! Keep writing!
Honestly, this is the best review I could ever get of any book I ever write. It means, for one youngster at least, I’ve become the equivalent of Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Madeleine L’Engle, and the other authors that captured my imagination as a young reader. I can’t think of a better Christmas present.
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