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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 …

Thoughts on the Hugo Awards

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
April 5, 2015
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The nominees for this year’s Hugo Awards have been announced, and I’m thrilled to see that my editor at DAW Books, Sheila Gilbert, is once again nominee for Best Editor, Long Form. This is Sheila’s third time on the ballot, and here’s hoping this is the year she goes home with the rocketship. That said, …

The Space-Time Continuum: Space Opera

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
September 14, 2014
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Here’s the latest instalment of my regular column on writing science fiction and fantasy from Freelance, the newsletter of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild… “Space opera” is an odd-looking term: after all, as the marketers for the movie Alien might have (but fortunately didn’t) put it, in space, no one can hear a tenor scream a …

See you at Word on the Street Saskatoon!

By Edward Willett in Blog, Writing and Editing
August 26, 2014
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I’m really looking forward to being a featured author at Word on the Street in Saskatoon on September 21. I’ll be part of a panel (along with Arthur Slade, Sean Cummings, and Jefferson Smith) called Other Worlds on the Prairies, focusing on writing science fiction and fantasy, which will be (appropriately enough) in the “Brave …

Another chance to read Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star for free…

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
June 27, 2014
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My daughter Alice (newly fledged teenager) is a big fan of Wattpad, and has begun posting her own writing there (alicehasreadit is her account, and trust me, the kid’s got promise). I’ve poked around at it and thought it might be an interesting place to try to snare a few new readers, so by way …

TARDIS: Time and Relative Dimensions in Stories

By Edward Willett in Blog, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
May 9, 2014
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On May 6 I was the speaker at the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s Write After Lunch series, and entitled my talk “TARDIS: Time and Relative Dimensions in Stories.” This is more or less the text I spoke from, although as you’ll see if you watch the archived video below and follow along, I didn’t exactly deliver it word …

The Space-Time Continuum: In Defence of Escapism

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
April 17, 2014
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Here’s my latest “Space-Time Continuum” column from Freelance, the newsletter of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild… Back at Weyburn Junior High I was once taken to task by a teacher for not remembering the name of the author of a book I liked. “If you don’t remember the author’s name,” he told me, “you’re just reading …

Help me choose between two cover art options for Star Song

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books
March 16, 2014
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I’m working toward self-publishing Star Song (as I mentioned in this week’s book giveaway starting post), and today I spent some time playing with cover ideas. I’ve got two choices thus far, so I’m soliciting opinions. Which of the two covers below do you like best…and why? Here’s the one-paragraph description of the novel: Kriss …

Book Giveaway Week 5: Enter and get a pre-publication sneak peek at STAR SONG

By Edward Willett in Books, Giveaways, Writing and Editing
March 15, 2014
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The winner of Week 4 of my great book giveaway was Melinda, who commented on my Edward Willett Facebook page. Now it’s on to Week 5! Rules are the same: leave a comment below, or reply to one of my Facebook posts, or retweet one of my daily Tweets on the subject, and if your …

The Space-Time Continuum: Workshops

By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
January 14, 2014
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Today, while writing the next installment of my regular SF/F-writing column “The Space-Time Continuum” for Freelance, the magazine of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, I realized I’d never posted the previous column online…and so here it is! *** Over the years I’ve participated in a number of science fiction and fantasy writing workshops, to great effect: …

SF Revu calls Right to Know “wildly entertaining”

By Edward Willett in Blog, Books, Writing and Editing
January 6, 2014
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Masks, my fantasy novel written as E.C. Blake, has gotten quite a bit of attention since it came out, whereas my science fiction novel Right to Know, published by Bundoran Press, has been shamefully overlooked…which is why I was pleased when Hayden Trenholm, my publisher and editor at Bundoran, brought this review by Jon Guenther …