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Latest issue of Grain Magazine (which I edited) now out

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
July 15, 2015
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Grain Magazine 42.3, the second volume of this venerable literary magazine that I’ve guest edited, is now in the mail to subscribers. I really enjoyed working on it with poetry editor Kelly-Anne Riess and fiction editor Cassidy McFadzean. Among the duties of the managing editor is to come up with a title for the issue. …

The Space-Time Continuum: Two Roads

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
June 28, 2015
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost When Robert Frost wrote his famous poem “The Road Not Taken,” he clearly didn’t have in mind the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which postulates there is a very large—perhaps infinite—number …

Giving imagination free rein: Sheila Gilbert of DAW Books

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
April 24, 2015
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I’m jumping the gun a little bit here, since Freelance hasn’t come out yet, but here’s my upcoming “Space-Time Continuum” column for the Saskatchewan Writers Guild magazine–an interview with my editor and publisher, Sheila Gilbert, nominated once again this year for a Hugo Award for Best Editor, Long Form. As a teenager looking for science …

Great video about best genre literary conference anywhere: When Words Collide

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
October 19, 2014
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Here’s a great video about the best genre literary convention in North America and probably the world: Calgary’s When Words Collide. If you’re interested in writing, you owe it to yourself to get to When Words Collide. My name gets mentioned about halfway through this video as an example of the kinds of deals that …

A sneak peek at Masks

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
February 22, 2013
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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 …

Aging my heroine, fulfilling my pledges

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
February 12, 2013
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As I noted last week when I made my excuses for not blogging very much, one of the tasks keeping me occupied was rewriting Masks, the first book in my upcoming trilogy for DAW (under the pseudonym of E.C. Blake). This was an interesting pass through the manuscript, because its main purpose was to change …

The traditional “Blog post about why I’m not blogging much”

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
February 4, 2013
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I know, I know. I post about getting a cat and then I fall silent, which can lead to only one conclusion: the cat ate my blog post. Not quite true, although Shadowpaw (Look! Another cat photo! Because there’s such a shortage of those on the Internet!) is sitting on my lap as I type …

Things my editor told me

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
December 19, 2012
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I think I’ve mentioned—though no more than a gazillion times or so, so you might have missed it—that my next book to be published by DAW will be Masks, first book in a trilogy (and hopefully series) that will continue with Shadows and Faces. Earlier today I spent a couple of hours on the phone …

Final Willett-edited Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon now online

By Edward Willett in Blog
November 2, 2010
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You can now read the final issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon that I edited online. Just follow the links! Here are the covers again:

Covers of the last two Willett-edited Fine Lifestyles magazines

By Edward Willett in Blog
October 22, 2010
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The fall issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon, the last edited by me, are now out. Here are the covers. (Similar, but not identical!) They should both be online sometime in the next little while. Fine Lifestyles Regina includes a feature about me, written by Mark Claxton, and although I’m not exactly …

End of a (brief) era

By Edward Willett in Blog
October 4, 2010
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The freelance life is one of ups and downs and sudden changes of fortune, and it never pays to get too attached to anything. Even things that run for a very long time, like my science column, eventually wind down. And most projects never go on anywhere near as long as that did (around 20 …

Latest issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon now online

By Edward Willett in Blog
August 23, 2010
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The summer issues of Fine Lifestyles Regina and Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon, both of which I edit, are now online. Fine Lifestyles Regina features five prominent women on the cover; Fine Lifestyles Saskatoon has Vaughn Wyant and Lori Leach. We’re already hard at work on the fall issue, due out in early October. Clicking on the …