Category: Writing and Editing

Book launch for Right to Know at When Words Collide in Calgary August 10

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
July 30, 2013
2 mins to read
Leave comment

The release of my science fiction novel Right to Know (the first chapter of which you can read here) is drawing near, and in honor of that fact, the publisher, Bundoran Press will be holding a book launch for it at When Words Collide in Calgary on the evening of Saturday, August 10. Also launching: …

Cover art for Right to Know

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
June 24, 2013
2 mins to read
Leave comment

Here’s the gorgeous cover for my upcoming science fiction novel Right to Know, coming out from Bundoran Press in August (we’ll be launching it at When Words Collide in Calgary: launch party planned for Saturday night, August 10!) The artwork is by Dan O’Driscoll–I’m planning to use him for Star Song, the YA novel I …

I’m the “LoreMaster” for a brand-new computer game company…

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
June 12, 2013
1 mins to read
Leave comment

…called Snowfury Studios. Check out the website (you’ll find me under “Our Team”), and then check out the video below, the teaser trailer for the first proposed game (Kickstarter willing), Project Snowstorm: Rise of the Eternals, hopefully the first in a trilogy. I’m having a lot of fun working on this and have great hopes …

My short story will be in Tesseracts 17!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
June 12, 2013
5 mins to read
1 comments

Tesseracts is the long-running anthology of Canadian speculative fiction published for the past few years by Calgary’s Edge Publications. I’ve never sold a short story to it…until now. (This may have something to do with the fact I’ve never submitted to it before. Funny how that works.) Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast …

A YouTube interview avec moi…

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
June 11, 2013
1 mins to read
Leave comment

…promoting the re-release of Spirit Singer by Tyche Books. Among many other things.

Pre-order Masks now!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
April 6, 2013
1 mins to read
Leave comment

Masks, first book in my new fantasy series from DAW, written as E.C. Blake, won’t be released until November 5: but you can pre-order it now through Amazon! They’ve already got the product page up. Masks will be followed next year by Shadows, and then by Faces. And after that…well, we’ll see. I’m hoping the …

My Aurora-eligible short story “A Little Space Music”

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
April 2, 2013
33 mins to read
Leave comment

The deadline for nominations for the Aurora Awards, for the best Canadian speculative fiction, is just two weeks away (April 15)…so naturally I’m only now getting around to making my only Aurora eligible work of the year available online for potential nominators to read. Still, ’tis better to have posted the story and not be …

News item about my Freedom to Read Week visit to Weyburn

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
March 7, 2013
3 mins to read
Leave comment

It’s not, alas, from the Weyburn Review, the newspaper I used to edit: instead it’s from Weyburn This Week. The interview was conducted before I made my appearance at the Weyburn Public Library last week for Freedom to Read Week, but didn’t appear until after…and while I appreciate the coverage, it’d have been nice to …

A brief discourse on freedom to read and freedom to speak

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
February 27, 2013
3 mins to read
Leave comment

I’m reading in Weyburn tonight at the Weyburn Public Library. It’s partly in honor of Freedom to Read Week, and so here, in a nutshell, is my Freedom to Read philosophy: People should be free to read whatever they want. Want more? Okay, I’ll add this: People should be free to write and say whatever …

A sneak peek at Masks

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
February 22, 2013
6 mins to read
Leave comment

That gorgeous cover, by Paul Young, will grace my next book from DAW, Masks, written under the pseudonym E.C. Blake. I just got it this week, and now I’m doubly excited about the book coming out. Here’s what DAW has come up with for the book jacket flaps (Masks is coming out in hardcover, my …

The Space-Time Continuum: “Dammit, Jim, I’m a storyteller, not a social worker!”

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
February 15, 2013
5 mins to read
Leave comment

My latest “Space-Time Continuum” column from the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild‘s newsletter Freelance… *** This column I want to return to the World Fantasy Convention held in Toronto last November…and a panel that rubbed me the wrong way. Entitled “The Changing Face of YA Fantasy,” the panel was described this way: “Fantasy works for young adult …

Not enough readers, not enough time: the end of my regular science column (for real, this time)

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns, Writing and Editing
February 14, 2013
5 mins to read
Leave comment

All right, this time it’s for real: I’m pulling the plug on my weekly science column (I haven’t written one for about a month anyway). And it’s all MailChimp’s fault. MailChimp is actually a great way to send out nicely formatted HTML newsletters, and I’m very glad to use it for that purpose. However, MailChimp …