Way back when I was in my last semester at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, in the fall of 1979, a friend of mine, Rick Hamill, spearheaded a literary magazine which ended up being called …and a story, the name deriving from the fact it was all poetry except for one short story–mine. I’ve had that little magazine …
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Read a story I wrote when I was 20
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March 4, 2021
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New releases: Right to Know and Falcon’s Egg (the Peregrine Rising space-opera duology)
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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November 21, 2020
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Right to Know and Falcon’s Egg, which collectively make up my Peregrine Rising space-opera duology, are now available in brand-new ebook editions from Shadowpaw Press for the low, low price of just $3.99 CDN ($2.99 US) each. Both were originally published by Bundoran Press (Right to Know in 2013 and Falcon’s Egg in 2015). The …
Shapers of Worlds now available in both print and ebook
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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September 22, 2020
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The Shapers of Worlds anthology, featuring 18 stories by authors who appeared on my podcast, The Worldshapers, during the first year, and successfully Kickstarted back in March, is now available in both print and ebook. Specifically: Shadowpaw Press | The Fantastic Worlds of Edward Willett | Kobo | Chapters/Indigo | Apple Books | Google Play | Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Barnes & Noble Once more, here’s …
The Moonlit World now available!
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
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September 16, 2020
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Yesterday was the release date for The Moonlit World, Book 3 in my Worldshapers series from DAW Books. Have you got your copy yet? It’s available in both trade paperback and electronic format. Here are some places you can buy it online: Amazon U.S. | Amazon Canada | Indigo| Barnes & Noble | Penguin Random House | Indiebound Read an excerpt! Here are some …
Shapers of Worlds in the flesh
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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September 11, 2020
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Today I received my copies of the Kickstarter backers’ edition of Shapers of Worlds. The book is beautiful! The ebook, again, comes out September 22 from all major retailers, while the commercial print release is November 14. Here are some order links for the ebook version. At the moment, the only place you can pre-order …
From the Street to the Stars now available in print!
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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August 30, 2020
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From the Street to the Stars (Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, Book 1), is now formally available in print, as well as ebook, format! Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star was my first published science fiction (as opposed to fantasy) novel. It appeared in print from Montreal’s Roussan Publishers in 1999. It was named to the Canadian …
A new seven-sentence short story: The Quantum Beast
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
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August 15, 2020
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Earlier today, as part of this year’s online version of When Words Collide, the great annual writing conference in Calgary, I led about forty writers through the Seven-Sentence Short Story exercise, created by science fiction and fantasy author (and former English teacher) James Van Pelt, who was on hand and took part himself! I’ve used this …
Master of the World now in mass-market paperback!
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
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August 3, 2020
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Master of the World, Book 2 in my Worldshapers series from DAW books, is now available in mass-market paperback, for just $7.99 US/$10.99 CDN, from your favorite bookseller. You know you want it! Amazon U.S. | Amazon Canada | Indigo | Barnes & Noble | Penguin Random House | Indiebound Longlisted for The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in the Young Adult Fiction category. …
Literary Titan calls Worldshaper “a mesmerizing story”
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Writing and Editing
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July 15, 2020
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There’s a great new review of Worldshaper from Literary Titan, which gives it four out of four stars. Some highlights: “Worldshaper by Edward Willett is an exciting supernatural adventure story that builds on a unique premise to deliver a mesmerizing story…one of the most unique setups to a story that I’ve read this year…we get to …
New release: From the Street to the Stars (Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, Book 1)
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
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June 20, 2020
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The latest release from my Shadowpaw Press is the completely revised new edition of Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, Book 1, now titled From the Street to the Stars. You can download the ebook version directly from Shadowpaw Press: From the Street to the Stars (Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, Book 1) Amazon.com | Amazon.ca …
New review of Worldshaper: “a ripping yarn”
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
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June 6, 2020
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This is an interesting new review of Worldshaper, from Hal C F Astell at The Nameless Zine. He raises questions about the novel’s world that I enjoyed reading because they are in fact the very questions I begin to address in Book 2, Master of the World (as he hopes I will) and Book 3, …
Cover art reveal: Star Song, coming soon from Shadowpaw Press
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Featured in Slider, Shadowpaw Press
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May 24, 2020
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Shapers of Worlds, the Kickstarted anthology featuring work by some of the first-year guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, will likely be the next Shadowpaw Press title, but I’m also working on others, including a young-adult science fiction novel called Star Song…and here’s the cover art! (Dan O’Driscoll is the artist–he does covers for Bundoran Press, so he …
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