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 …
The Shards of Excalibur audiobooks, narrated by the wonderful Elizabeth Klett, are now available again after being off the market for a short while. Best of all, while they’re once more on Audible.com and Audible.ca, you …
The official press release from the publisher says it all: Award-winning Canadian author, and host of The Worldshapers podcast, Edward Willett, is joining the Tuscany Bay Books family in 2026 with his The Helix War series. Tuscany Bay Books …
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The first sentences I wrote yesterday…
For Blue Fire:
Bound, gagged, stripped and then dressed again with no more thought to his personal wishes or privacy than if he had been a dressmaker’s dummy, Petra could do nothing but fume and pray that Vekk would strike them all dead with Blue Fire for daring to touch one of his Priest-Apprentices.
Words yesterday: 845
Total thus far: 15,561
(I know, I know, how do you strip and then dress somebody whose arms and legs are bound? I’ll fix it in the rewrite.)
For Magebane:
The fact was, he hadn’t seen his father in the flesh for…what? Two months?
Words yesterday: 2,605
Total thus far: 25,610
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