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 …
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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 …
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Writing Diary: September 22, 2004
Did a bunch of Web site work today, adding all my old arts columns to the site and making sure they all had Google Ads on them (because you know what? I’m actually making money with those things! Not a lot, but enough to cover lattes…)
Then this afternoon I worked on Excalibur Reforged for a bit at Second Cup, mostly figuring out some background I need for the whole series I hadn’t really thought through. Now I’ll need to work bits of that background into the story as I proceed through this edit of it.
Then I forged some memos about Bush’s National Guard service to send to the CBC.
Just kidding.
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