My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, already a finalist for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards and finalist for a 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division, has just been named a finalist for Best YA Novel in the 2026 High Plains International Book Awards The High Plains International Book …
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Fireboy is a Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice nominee
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 the second time I’ve had a book nominated for a MYRCA, but it’s been a while–the last one was Andy …
Fireboy and The Worldshapers are Aurora Award finalists
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 Related Work. As well, Robert J. Sawyer’s The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine, coming out in print from my …
My Aurora-eligible work for 2025: read my eligible short story online!
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 Bay Books) and The Worldshapers podcast, and have been shortlisted several other times. If you’d like to nominate and/or vote for the …
Available again: my modern-day Civil War-themed middle-grade ghost story The Haunted Horn
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 story with a Civil War theme. Set in Arkansas (where I went to university–Harding University, to be exact, B.A. in …
Shards of Excalibur audiobooks available again, and this time, in many more places
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 can also find them in many other audiobook stores, such as Apple’s and Kobo’s. Or, better yet, download them directly …
Marseguro and Terra Insegura find a new home, and the long-delayed third book in the series will finally come out!
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 will be re-releasing new editions of the first two books of the series, Marseguro, which won the 2009 Aurora Award, honoring Canadian science …
New edition of Magebane now available!
It’s been quite the year for reprints of some of my older novels, thanks to modern technology, and now there’s another: Magebane, the stand-alone steampunk-tinged fantasy I originally wrote for DAW Books, under the pseudonym Lee Arthur Chane, and which (he said modestly) received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. As with Lost in Translation, …
A new edition of my first DAW Books science fiction novel, Lost in Translation
Fairly hard on the heels of the new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, I’ve now released a new edition of the first of my novels published by DAW Books in New York. Lost in Translation was first published by Five Star Books in hardcover, strictly for the library market. DAW picked it …
A new edition of my award-shortlisted YA novel The Dark Unicorn available now!
I’ve been meaning to create a new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, for a long time, and I finally did it, bringing it out in paperback and ebook (and AI-narrated audiobook) through my Endless Sky Books. Here are some links, but it is widely distributed, so you should be able to get …
Final Shapers of Worlds anthology has been out for a while now . . .
I really can’t believe I neglected to highlight this one when it came out! Shapers of Worlds Volume V is, of course, the fifth (and final) installment in a series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers. (Which, by the way, was once again a finalist for …
My latest! Middle-grade/YA modern-day fantasy Fireboy
My latest novel, the middle-grade/younger YA modern-day fantasy Fireboy, is now available everywhere! Buy it wherever you buy books, or have your local bookstore or library order it in! Or, get it directly from Shadowpaw Press in either ebook or print. ISBN: 978-1998273423 – 240pp – $22.99 print – $6.99 ebook. “I knew things were …
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