A Bit About Bias Now that both the Canadian and the American elections are over, it’s time to ask ourselves a serious question: How on Earth could so many people be so pig-headed and blind as to have disagreed with you and me (I’m assuming, of course, that you agree with me) about the best …
…which played a benefit concert for the Regina Symphony Orchestra Saturday night, is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got those strings” would be one way to sum up the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s concert Saturday night at the Conexus Arts Centre. The strings are the heart of …
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War, and in honour of that, I’m going to start doing something I’ve wanted to do for a long time: posting the First World War memoirs of my grandfather-in-law Sampson John Goodfellow.I’ll post a few pages almost …
I’ve got so much to get done this week that it’s hard to look ahead to next weekend, but I thought I should mention that next Saturday I’ll be reading at the Meadow Lake Public Library at 7 p.m. Oh, look, here’s a link! (The photo is the one they’re using to promote the reading; …
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
DAW just sent me a sneak peek at the cover art for Terra Insegura, my next novel, due out in May. The cover’s by Hugo Award-winning artist Stephan Martiniere (who was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award this year). It’s completely different from the Steve Stone-created cover of Marseguro, but I like it! Now …
Well, I’m glad that’s over. Congratulations to President-Elect Obama. He seems like a smart guy, so I hope he’s smart enough to govern from a more centrist position than some of his background might indicate. (Remember, I’m as centrist as they come, according to those I’m-sure-entirely-accurate quizzes you can take.) We’ll see. It’d be nice …
My nonfiction book Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw (Red Deer Press) has been nominated by Heritage Regina for a City of Regina Municipal Heritage Award in the Education category. From the letter in support of the nomination, signed by Dr. J. William Brennan, chairman of Heritage Regina: Reginans and visitors to our city …
It’s no secret that people occasionally speed between here and Saskatoon. At the speed limit, 258 kilometres should take about 2 1/2 hours. But by doing (in the immortal words of The Dukes of Hazzard theme song) “just a little bit more than the law will allow,” some people cut that down to, say, 2 …
…has showed up in the 50 Book Challenge community on LiveJournal: Alien races have developed biochemical telepathy, but what happens when you try it without the chemical part and the biological part dies? A good premise with some space opera to give the story some meat. As I said a few posts ago, it’s nice …
Last day of the World Fantasy Convention! The awards banquet wrapped up just an hour or so ago, and so without further ado, here are the winners of this year’s World Fantasy Awards (with pictures of the actual recipients who were present–not a very high percentage, I’m afraid). Winners, as you can probably guess, are …
A good day for me, but not much to blog about. I only attended one panel, on YA Fantasy, and I didn’t stay to the end because I thought I should drop in on the SF Canada meeting going on next door. Sharyn November, editor of Firebird Books, made a…forceful…moderator (that’s her in the centre …
