As I post this, it’s the morning after the opening night performance of Regina Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, in which I play Fogg and also sing …
My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
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 …
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The first sentences I wrote today…
For Blue Fire:
Petra did not sleep well that night, torn between worry that he might oversleep and….overstimulating…images of the Freefolk girl dancing.
Words today: 2,272
Total thus far: 14,715
For Magebane:
Karl, alone with Lady Vin, who was still studying the final report the Council had received, stood and stretched.
Words today: 1,362
Total thus far: 23,005
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Magebane is the one you actually have a contract for, how come you got more words into the still-on-spec Blue Fire today?” And the answer is simple: today’s Blue Fire scene was an action-packed pivotal bit of plot, whereas today’s Magebane scene was more of the move-Character A-to-Place B, insert-Plot Point C-into-Background D type. So Blue Fire flew along, while Magebane plodded. Still, not a bad number of words all around, considering I did completely unrelated work all morning. I was still reasonably pleased.
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