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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My favorite email of the year…
…came from a teacher in a school I visited not too long ago. The book of mine in question is Marseguro:
Your books have become the absolute fascination of a young boy in Grade 10 who is self-proclaimed to be a non-reader! (He) exclaims about his novel, your novel, every day in English class. He can’t get enough of it! I told him today that there is at least one more novel in the library that you wrote, and then I went and found it for him. He is no longer afraid to finish the first, fearing it will be the last…
We are presently studying The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, and he is finding the parallels amazing. I have truly never seen him get so excited about a book before. He can’t believe it himself.
Thank you for writing for our youth! Keep writing!
Honestly, this is the best review I could ever get of any book I ever write. It means, for one youngster at least, I’ve become the equivalent of Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Madeleine L’Engle, and the other authors that captured my imagination as a young reader. I can’t think of a better Christmas present.
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