I was on this great podcast back in April, and I don’t think I posted anything about it. In fact, I forgot about it until today (I think maybe a coronavirus ate my brain). I really enjoyed it. Have a listen!
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A podcast I was on and forgot to post!
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Podcast, Writing and Editing
- 7 months ago
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The Worldshapers podcast an Aurora Award finalist again for Best Fan Related Work
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Featured in Slider, Podcast
- 9 months ago
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I’m very pleased to announce that my podcast, The Worldshapers (“Conversations with science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process”) has, for the second year in a row, been nominated for the Aurora Award for Best Fan Related Work–an award it won last year! (That’s the very nice trophy in the photo.) The Aurora …
FUNDED: a Kickstarter for an anthology of short fiction from some of today’s top science fiction and fantasy authors
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Podcast, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
- 11 months ago
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My Kickstarter campaign to fund Shapers of Worlds, an anthology of short stories from some of the authors who were guests my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, in its first year, was a great success, raising $15,700 CDN, well above the original goal of $13,500. As a result, the anthology is full-steam ahead, heading for an August …
My podcast, The Worldshapers, wins an Aurora Award!
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Podcast
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October 22, 2019
- 14 mins to read
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Last Saturday, October 19, at the ceremony in Ottawa hosted by Can*Con, I was honored to receive this year’s Aurora Award for Bet Fan Related Work for my podcast, The Worldshapers. The Prix Aurora Awards are Canada’s fan-nominated-and-voted-on awards for science fiction, fantasy, and related work, roughly the Canadian equivalent of the Hugo Awards. The Best Fan Related Work …
The Space-Time Continuum: Why do we write?
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
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January 12, 2019
- 7 mins to read
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This is my latest “Space-Time Continuum” column for the Saskatchewan Writers Guild‘s news magazine Freelance. Have you ever asked yourself why you write? Or asked your writer friends why they write? I have. In fact, I literallyasked myself that question in one episode of my ongoing podcast, The Worldshapers (www.theworldshapers.com), featuring conversations with science fiction and fantasy …
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