A Darkness Forged in Fire is a new fantasy (the first in a series collectively called The Iron Elves) by a new writer, Chris Evans. I receieved a free copy from the publisher for some reason or other, and was glad to get it. I won’t bother with a synopsis–you can get that from Amazon–but …
Last week, I posted one of my successful query letters as part of the Query Project, organized by my fellow DAW author Joshua Palmetier. Joshua has previously organized The Plot Synopsis Project, in which published authors posted synopses they used to seel books, and now he’s gone and done it again–and I’m pleased to be …
I’m not the only writing Willett, by any means. Allow me to introduce you to Marcia Willett (that’s her at left, with her agent, Dinah Wiener, in Christ Church Meadows). From the Macmillan Books website: Born in Somerset, in the west country of England, on the day the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Marcia …
Here’s the invitation Red Deer Press is sending out for the upcoming book launches for Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw… …you know, in case for some reason yours didn’t arrive in the mail.
Notes for this week’s CBC radio segment of Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House. UPDATE: Listen to the actual interview! **** Souvenirs seem to have some strange mesmeric power over travelers. You visit a place with beautiful scenery, a long and fascinating history, great restaurants and a vibrant night life, and somehow you decide …
Everyone’s ranting about politics today, it seems, so I guess I should, too. But since my range of acquaintances runs from gay socialist actors through libertarian atheist science fiction writers all the way over to conservative fundamentalist preachers, all of whom just seem to assume that all the Right People agree entirely with their positions …
You would have had to work very hard last week not to have heard that the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, has just started operating on the Swiss-Franco border. Superlatives abound in any discussion of the LHC. It’s the largest machine in the world, 27 kilometres in circumference, 100 metres underground. …
Much to my surprise, there’s a big review (in the newspaper itself, it comes with a giant image of the book!) of Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw in today’s Leader Post. Edward Willett has cobbled together a walking guide that will appeal to history buffs and those with a keen appreciation for architecture. …
My fellow DAW author Joshua Palmetier has taken it upon himself to coordinate something called The Query Project. He’s asked a number of published authors to post, on September 12, one of their actual query letters that led to them getting a publisher or agent, and comment on the art of writing queries in general. …
Subtitled “The Last Known Adventure of The Mad Scientists’ Club,” this is the posthumously published novel by Bertrand R. Brinley that continues the escapades of the better-prank-playing-through-science-and-engineering youngsters told in the short story collections The Mad Scientists’ Club and The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club. I enjoyed it, but probably only because I’d …
Here are this week’s notes for the “Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law’s House” segment that will be on between 4:30 and 5 p.m. today on CBC Saskatchewan’s Afternoon Edition. In the radio version, the segment about the aluminum coffee pot got left out, so that’s your special blog bonus for the week! (And again, …
We are, alas, heading into winter, which is not only the cold (Brrr!) season, but also the cold (Ah-choo!) season. We all get colds. That’s not surprising, because, as the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University in the U.K. likes to point out, we breathe in some 15,000 litres of germ-laden air every day. Which …
