Category: Writing and Editing

“Reunion,” a short story by Eddie Willett, age 19

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
March 1, 2014
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As promised in the previous post, here’s my short story from the Spring 1979 issue of Shapes and Names, the literary magazine of Harding College (now Harding University). The cover art at left was created by Jerry Palmer. My short story, at over 8,000 words, was by far the longest piece, and reading it now, …

I wonder what my college professor would think of me now?

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
March 1, 2014
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The next post after this one is going to be a very early short story of mine that I just uncovered. Called “Reunion,” it was published in the Spring, 1979, issue (Volume 2, Number 2) of Shapes and Names, the literary magazine published by the department of English of Harding College (now Harding University) in …

The Space-Time Continuum: Reality in Fantasy

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
February 14, 2014
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Here’s my latest column for the Saskatchewan Writers Guild‘s magazine Freelance… *** When someone writes a hardboiled police procedural novel, we expect it to adhere to correct police procedures in the city in which it is set. When someone writes a historical novel set in 19th-century India, we expect the details of life and governance …

Song of the Sword web page goes live at Coteau Books

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
February 1, 2014
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Song of the Sword, first book in my news YA fantasy series written as Edward Willett, now has its official web page on the Coteau Books site. And here it is! You can download a high-res version of the cover or the media release. Feel free to send it to everyone you know. You can …

A couple of more Masks reviews to note…

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
February 1, 2014
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First, Masks got a second review in Locus this latest issue. Carolyn Cushman writes (not online), “Blake…know how to turn out an old-fashioned adventure with just enough of a dystopian edge to feel new again.” Meanwhile, Dark Faerie Tales gives Masks 4/5 stars…er, ravens, saying: “Young adult books can sometimes be hit or miss with …

Coteau Books releases Spring 2014 catalogue featuring Song of the Sword

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
January 27, 2014
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The launch of my back-from-the-dead YA fantasy series The Shards of Excalibur grows ever nearer: Coteau Books has released its spring 2014 catalogue (download the whole thing here) which features Song of the Sword, book one in the five-book series which will continue with Twist of the Blade (currently in rewrites) this fall…with two more …

Some thoughts on the reviews of Masks

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
January 25, 2014
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One of the…um, eye-opening…things about having novels published (and at this point, under both this name and others, I’ve had quite a few) is the realization, as the reviews start to come in (if you’re lucky enough to even get reviewed), that not everyone thinks you have written the most amazingly wonderful book of all …

The Space-Time Continuum: Workshops

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
January 14, 2014
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Today, while writing the next installment of my regular SF/F-writing column “The Space-Time Continuum” for Freelance, the magazine of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, I realized I’d never posted the previous column online…and so here it is! *** Over the years I’ve participated in a number of science fiction and fantasy writing workshops, to great effect: …

An interview with me at Nine Day Wonder

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
January 13, 2014
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The website Nine Day Wonder has just posted an interview with me. Here’s an excerpt that addresses one of the most common questions I’m asked: DW: E.C. Blake, Lee Arthur Chane, Edward Willett…You’ve gone by multiple pen names, which is not uncommon for writers are prolific as you are. What’s the advantage in building multiple “brands”? …

SF Revu calls Right to Know “wildly entertaining”

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
January 6, 2014
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Masks, my fantasy novel written as E.C. Blake, has gotten quite a bit of attention since it came out, whereas my science fiction novel Right to Know, published by Bundoran Press, has been shamefully overlooked…which is why I was pleased when Hayden Trenholm, my publisher and editor at Bundoran, brought this review by Jon Guenther …

YA or not YA? Qwillery review of Masks hits on a salient point

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
December 31, 2013
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I haven’t been posting about all the reviews Masks has been getting because there have been quite a lot of them–more than I’m used to, and a function, I think, of this being my first hardcover release and getting some early favorable attention from the likes of Publishers Weekly and RT Book Reviews. There’s also …

My next book to be published…

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
December 4, 2013
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…is not one of the four novels I expect to appear in 2014. Instead, it’s this one, a non-fiction book for Rosen, an educational publisher I’ve done quite a bit of work-for-hire stuff over the years. Of which this is one. It’s about starting a career as a digital designer: pathways into the field, where …