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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Me, beginning to see the light
I don’t post pictures of myself very often, but here’s one: this is me singing in Weyburn on Friday the 13th for a Rotary Club fundraising event called Homegrown. Since I’m holding the mike in this slightly fuzzy shot, I must have been singing “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” Most of the others I sang were Broadway tunes, including “Some Enchanted Evening,” “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “Me” (from Beauty and the Beast), and “Old Man River.” I also sang “Morning Has Broken” and that Flanders and Swann classic “Have Some Madeira, M’Dear.” April Sampson, whom I’ve known for many, many years, accompanied me (she’s also the one who asked me to come down and sing). As the rural correspondents for the Weyburn Review used to say, “A good time was had by all.”
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I don’t post pictures of myself very often, but here’s one: this is me singing in Weyburn on Friday the 13th for a Rotary Club fundraising event called Homegrown. Since I’m holding the mike in this slightly fuzzy shot, I must have been singing “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” Most of the others I sang were Broadway tunes, including “Some Enchanted Evening,” “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “Me” (from Beauty and the Beast), and “Old Man River.” I also sang “Morning Has Broken” and that Flanders and Swann classic “Have Some Madeira, M’Dear.” April Sampson, whom I’ve known for many, many years, accompanied me (she’s also the one who asked me to come down and sing). As the rural correspondents for the Weyburn Review used to say, “A good time was had by all.”
