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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Writing Diary: July 22, 2004
Late again with this, but it was exciting yesterday: I not only made it to the end of Shards of Excalibur Book 1 (63,400 words, 302 pages), I printed it out so I could give it to someone for critiquing last night; I’ll print it again this afternoon to mail to another critiquer.
Ran out of time and didn’t get any Orson Scott Card done. And I’ve complicated my life by taking on a tech editing job for Wiley. But at least I won’t lack for things to do between now and going on vacation in a couple of weeks.
Today I have to finish up the final proofing of Lost in Translation, and prepare some author material for Five Star. OSC may get bumped again. But there’s always the weekend…
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