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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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Shards of Excalibur audiobooks available again, and this time, in many more places
- By Edward Willett in Audiobooks, Books, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
- 3 months ago
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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!
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
- 3 months ago
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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!
- By Edward Willett in Books, Endless Sky Books, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
- 3 months ago
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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
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Endless Sky Books, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
- 4 months ago
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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!
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Endless Sky Books, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
- 6 months ago
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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 . . .
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
- 7 months ago
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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
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
- 8 months ago
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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 …
Cold Feet: A Seven-Sentence Short Story
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
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April 13, 2024
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Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I wrote this morning. I had not the slightest idea what I would write until I began it, so this is …
The Dragon Toy of the Seven: A Seven-Sentence Short Story
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
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August 26, 2023
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Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story writer James van Pelt. The illustration above is AI-generated by Bing. Introduce what the main character wants and the first …
The Cat of Enlightenment: A Seven-Sentence Short Story
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
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August 6, 2023
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Another When Words Collide, another Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop, as I once again led a group of writers through this plotting exercise devised by noted science fiction short-story writer James Van Pelt. As always, I created a story myself. I usually call this a plotting exercise, but since I was also on a panel called …
Soulworm, my debut novel, now available again in a new edition
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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May 25, 2023
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Soulworm, my first published novel (originally released by Royal Fireworks Press in 1997), is now available in a brand-new, lightly revised edition from Shadowpaw Press Reprise. You can purchase it at one of these links or directly from Shadowpaw Press. Soulworm was shortlisted for Best First Book at the Saskatchewan Book Awards the year it …
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