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 …
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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 …
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Photo of the Day: Lunar Eclipse. No, really, believe me!

I was feeling a bit disappointed in my best picture of the lunar eclipse tonight (this is about halfway to totality) until I saw John Scalzi’s photo.
Now I’m thinking I did all right in the absence of a tripod and with a six-year-old girl tugging on my elbow and begging me to go back inside…
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2008/02/photo-of-the-day-lunar-eclipse-no-really-believe-me/
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Thanks! I think I could have gotten something really good if I’d only had my tripod with me.
The view of it here in Regina was spectacular, if a bit cold (-21 C).
Edward:
Thank you for sharing a most excellent photo of [a] smoky yin-yang moon in eclipse! Most of us in .ba.ca.us missed nearly everything owing to heavy post-rain cloud cover.
– CJH / esper