On July 1, I had the honour to lead the singing of “O Canada” at the Lieutenant Governor’s Garden Party at Government House in celebration of Canada Day. And here’s a video! Here I am …
My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, already a finalist for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards and finalist for a 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division, has just been …
Had a great time being part of the cast of Regina Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I played Fogg (the insane asylum keeper) and also sang in …
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 …
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The first sentence I wrote today…
He hadn’t paid much attention to the navigation screens for a while, but now it was time set a course back to Hansen’s Harbor–which I never should have left in the first place, he thought.
Current word count: 41,302
New words this session: 1,226
Percentage of novel completed: 41.3
I was able to find a Second Cup here in Richmond even closer to the hotel than the one in the Cornwall Centre in Regina is to our condo, and thus was able to continue by thus-far almost unbroken streak of writing this novel in a Second Cup. (I did write a couple of hundred words somewhere else, but I’m sure they weren’t very good ones.)
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