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Two more great reviews for Paths to the Stars

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
September 22, 2018
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Paths to the Stars, my collection of short stories, continues to get good reviews! Writing at The Future Fire, Lisa Timpf says: “Willett’s short story collection has much to offer. Between the pages of Paths to the Stars, readers will find both inner and outer journeys. Some of the characters find what they are hoping for, …

Five-star review for Paths to the Stars

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
September 19, 2018
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Just came across a great five-star review on Goodreads of Paths of the Stars, penned (pixelled?) by Toby Welch. Some excerpts: “In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve read Willett’s work before. I’ve enjoyed every novel of his that I’ve consumed and hoped that his latest work would reach the same high bar. It didn’t …

Publishers Weekly calls Worldshaper a “rollicking” contemporary fantasy in STARRED review

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
August 19, 2018
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Publishers Weekly, the bible of the publishing industry, has given my upcoming novel Worldshaper, Book 1 in my new Worldshapers series for DAW Books, its highest accolade, a STARRED review. Highlights: “This rollicking secondary-world contemporary fantasy opens with a bang…(the characters) grapple with the ethics of changing the world, the question of what makes people ‘real’ …

Read the first two chapters of Worldshaper!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
August 5, 2018
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It’s just six weeks until the release of Worldshaper, my ninth novel for DAW Books, on September 18 in trade paperback and ebook. What with When Words Collide coming up this weekend, and the World Science Fiction Convention after that, and DragonCon after that, and then SaskExpo after that, all of which I’ll be at …

New short-story collection Paths to the Stars now available!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Shadowpaw Press, Writing and Editing
July 10, 2018
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My new short-story collection, Paths to the Stars: Twenty-Two Fantastical Tales of Imagination, has just been released by Shadowpaw Press. The stories in it span my writing career–the oldest is one I wrote at age 19 (or possibly 18, I’m not sure) at Harding University; the newest just came out earlier this year. They’re roughly …

The Space-Time Continuum: How a small-town Saskatchewan boy launched science fiction’s Golden Age

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns
July 2, 2018
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My most recent Space-Time Continuum column for Freelance, the magazine of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild. The Golden Age of science fiction, many say, began with the publication of A.E. van Vogt’s story “Black Destroyer” in Astounding in 1939. Isaac Asimov’s first story for Astounding appears in that same issue; the next contained the first story by Robert …

Audiobook of I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust now available!

By Edward Willett in Audiobooks, Blog, Books, Poetry, Writing and Editing
June 23, 2018
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The audiobook of my collection of science fiction and fantasy poetry, I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust, which I narrated myself, is now available through Audible and iTunes. Of course, when you buy the audiobook, you don’t get the wonderful illustrations by my niece, Wendi Nordell (except for a small portion of the cover art), …

I talk about worldbuilding!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
June 8, 2018
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On Tuesday of this week I gave a presentation at the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild office, part of its Write After Lunch series of authors’ talks, entitled “Worldshaping.” The topic was what is usually called “worldbuilding,” but since my upcoming eighth novel for DAW Books (for which I just received the page proofs) is called Worldshaper, …

Praise from Saskatchewan Book Awards jurors for The Cityborn

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
April 29, 2018
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Last night the 25th annual Saskatchewan Book Awards were presented at the Conexus Arts Centre. My science fiction novel The Cityborn was shortlisted for the City of Regina Book Award, for “the best book by a Regina author, judged on the quality of the writing.” This is, I believe, the eighth time I’ve been shortlisted, …

Illustrated collection of science fiction/fantasy poetry released!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
April 28, 2018
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I Tumble through the Diamond Dust, my new collection of fantastical (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) poems, illustrated by Alberta artist Wendi Nordell (my talented niece), is now available in both print and ebook formats! Buy it from Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, Kobo, or the Apple store in ebook format, or in print through Chapters/Indigo or the …

Cover Art Reveal: Worldshaper

By Edward Willett in Books, Writing and Editing
March 28, 2018
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Here’s the fabulous cover art for Worldshaper, my ninth novel for DAW Books, coming out September 18 in hardcover and ebook. It’s the start of a new series called Worldshapers. The artwork is by Juliana Kolesova, who happens to also be from Canada–she works out of Toronto. Here’s the description: From an Aurora Award-winning author comes …

The Space-Time Continuum: Steam-Engine Time

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
March 28, 2018
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Here’s my latest column from Freelance, the magazine of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. All forms of art, from the visual to the theatrical, from motion pictures to literature, tend to go through movements. One reason for this is simply copycatting, something that is most clearly seen in the motion picture industry: somebody makes a movie …