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Belated Photo of the Weekend: "How Can Love Survive?"

Joan Miller and I ask the musical question “How Can Love Survive?” during the final run-through for Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s musical fundraising brunch, With a Song in My Heart…the Music of Richard Rodgers, at the Hotel Saskatchewan Radisson Plaza Sunday morning. In the program I also perform two solos: “Some Enchanted Evening” and (ahem) …

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And…I’m back

The reading went fine, but the best part of the evening was on my way out of the lobby. I stopped at the front desk to ask the young woman there if she would call me a cab. Which she did. I was carrying Lost in Translation, of course, and she noticed it and said, …

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Saskatoon afternoon

So here I am in Saskatoon, blogging to you live from the Radisson. The bus ride up was uneventful, if foggy in spots (see the previous post with a shot I rather hastily took out the bus window as we pulled into Davidson). I arrived a good 45 minutes before I needed to be at …

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I’ll be reading in Saskatoon tomorrow night, January 24…

…at McNally Robinson Bookstore, from Lost in Translation. 7 p.m. If you’re in the vicinity, come say hi! To my astonishment, I just discovered yesterday that McNally Robinson chose to put my picture (the same one you see over there in the left sidebar) in their ad for upcoming events at their stores in Winnipeg, …

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A review of my bio of Orson Scott Card

I came across the first review I’ve seen so far of my children’s biography Orson Scott Card: Architect of Alternate Worlds today at Barnes & Noble. It’s by Kristin Anderson and comes from School Libary Journal: This solid and well-researched biography does an able job of balancing information on the subject’s numerous publications with the …

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Reading and signing reminder

Just a reminder for any readers in the Regina area: I’ll be reading and signing my book A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 years of engineering and geoscience achievements in Saskatchewan, tonight (Tuesday, December 19) at 7 p.m. at the Book & Brier Patch in Regina. Since my wife can’t even be there, it would …

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A nice mini-review of my book A Safe and Prosperous Future…

…is in Will Chabun’s column in today’s Regina LeaderPost. To whit: A Safe and Prosperous Future — 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan — (has) a title that makes this book sound much duller than it really is. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) decided to mark its …

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How’s your vocabulary?

Your Vocabulary Score: A+ Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!You must be quite an erudite person. How’s Your Vocabulary? (Via Books, Words, and Writing.)

Another nice review for Lost in Translation

Dr. Robert Runte, an Aurora Award-winning Canadian SF critic and commentator and former editor, has written a glowing review of Lost in Translation for Issue 11 of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, and was kind enough to send it along to me. Highlights: Edward Willett has been publishing nonfiction and award-winning SF for young adults through …

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I coulda been a (NaNoWriMo) contender!

All this talk about National Novel Writing Month (for example, this local news story about a participant, one of 72 in Saskatchewan), got me to wondering just how many words I wrote in the final 30 days of working on the first draft of my new novel. I typed THE END on November 14. On …

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"This Is Strange"

It’s my niece’s blog. Nothing earth-shaking, but the girl knows how to put words together. She’ll make a fine lawyer some day. Check it out.

This blog is number one!

The number-one hit on Google if you do a search for the term “hassenpfeffer,” that is. Had I realized this sooner, I could have used it as one more reason for my idiosyncratic spelling of the word. (For which I was recently taken to task.) If you search for the “correct” spelling, “hasenpfeffer,” all you …

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