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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Today SF Canada, tomorrow the world!
Over the weekend SF Canada, Canada’s national association of speculative fiction professionals, as it says on our website, held its AGM (in virtual format using forum software, as befits a science fictiony organization), and rather foolishly elected me president.
I’m doing my best not to let my new-found power go to my head, but it does occur to me that the road to total world domination has to start somewhere…
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Probably somewhere else…
next, the entourage! pick me pick me pick me!
Ah, here you are (I went back to the former blog.) Congrartulations on your election; may it be as painless as possible.
I need to ask you a question about the Marseguro books for a rec I’m writing up, but your contact form here at the site isn’t working for me. Contact forms usually hate me. When you have time/a chance, would you please e-mail me?
Lynn