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 …
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 …
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
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No joy in Regina…
…well, at least not for me. My bio of J. R. R. Tolkien did not win a Saskatchewan Book Award at last night’s gala dinner. It was short-listed in the Children’s Literature category, which was won by Flux, by Beth Goobie. Beth Goobie was not there to accept the award, but cries of “Draw again!” failed to elicit a respons.
Seriously, it was an honor to be nominated. I look forward to next year’s awards, when three different sets of judges in three different categories will be required to read my adult SF novel Lost in Translation. Considering the “literary” bent of many of the judges, it may well be the first SF novel they’ve ever read
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