Tag: books

Another day, another box of books…

…with my name on them. Fresh from Rosen Publishing comes Incredibly Disgusting Drugs: Speed, by yours truly.

I’m I, Robot. What book are you?

You’re I, Robot!by Isaac Asimov While you have established a code of conduct for many generations to follow, your demeanor is rather cold and calculating. Brought up to serve humans, you have promised never to harm them, to follow orders, and to protect yourself. Living up to this code has proved challenging and sometimes even …

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It’s not as exciting as a new novel…

…but here’s the cover of another book I contributed to (I wrote a chapter on Regina’s Communities of Tomorrow partnership), which just arrived yesterday.

Book Give-Away Contest: Week I

Tomorrow’s the big day when Marseguro officially hits bookstore shelves, and today was the big day when my author’s and promotional copies finally arrived from Penguin Canada. (Yay!) And so, with great fanfare, I announce the Great Marseguro Book Give-Away Contest! Here’s how it’s going to work. I’m going to give away one signed copy …

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My Janis Joplin bio arrives!

Today I received my author’s copies of Janis Joplin: Take Another Little Piece of My Heart, the biography I wrote for Enslow Publishers. Another book out–the first of five or six bearing my name that should appear this year. Here’s the back copy: Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Joplin spent much of her adolescence …

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Free sample of Marseguro now online!

I’ve just posted the first two chapters of my upcoming science fiction novel Marseguro over at edwardwillett.com. Enjoy! And, then, of course, I hope you’ll order the book.

Another cover, another book…

I’d almost forgotten about this one, but if Amazon’s publication date is right, this will actually be my next non-fiction book to appear, before the Janis Joplin biography. It’s Speed, for educational publisher Rosen, part of their charmingly titled series “Incredibly Disgusting Drugs.”

Book sites

Here’s this week’s CBC Web column… *** Books make great Christmas presents…at least, the right book does. But with so many books out there, how do you find the good ones? Well, the World Wide Web is a good place to start. There are hundreds of good book sites on the Web. In fact, there …

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The wave of the publishing future?

Harlequin, the world’s biggest publisher of romance novels, is going to start making all of its new titles available for download on the Internet – 120 titles a month. Will more “respectable” publishers follow suit?

They like me, they really like me!

Just heard from my agent that DAW is going to buy my proposed sequel to Marseguro, working title Terra Insegura. Woo-hoo! Watch for the return of “the first sentence I wrote today” in the very near future…

Marseguro description in Publisher’s Weekly

Dug up on the Web: a description of Marseguro from the August 6 Publisher’s Weekly: Marseguro (Jan., $7.99) by Edward Willett. After a worldwide disaster, a fanatical religious theocracy takes over the planet.Well, yes, but that’s not really what the story is about. In fact, that’s really the backstory. What happens is… Well, you’ll see.

The book to win all the awards in science fiction…

…has been conceived by Teresa Nielsen Hayden and colleagues: The book has to be a graphic novel which is the first novel published by the author, a person of color who is an active and well-liked member of SFWA. It must be initially published in Canada, in French, as a paperback original, with simultaneous British …

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