Someone recently sent me pictures of the campus of Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas (my alma mater), showing it practically buried in beautiful spring flowers. Yes, spring is creeping northward, and soon multicolored flowers and rich green grass and leaves will replace our landscape’s current predominant shades of gray, white and brown. Exactly when …
He Came, He Fell, He Conquered: A Seven-Sentence Short Story
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
For Easter: listen to me sing “Forever”
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
Read my Aurora-eligible story “Quid est Veritas?”
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
My Aurora-eligible work for 2025: read my eligible short story online!
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
Available again: my modern-day Civil War-themed middle-grade ghost story The Haunted Horn
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
Shards of Excalibur audiobooks available again, and this time, in many more places
The Shards of Excalibur audiobooks, narrated by the wonderful Elizabeth Klett, are now available again after being off the market for a short while. Best of all, while they’re once more on Audible.com and Audible.ca, you …
Tag: spring
Spring again
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
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April 22, 2002
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Spring
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Columns
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April 8, 1996
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One hesitates to make a premature pronouncement, but it does appear–at least for the moment–that maybe–and this is only a suggestion, not a prediction, don’t hold me to it–that it could be–although I could be wrong–finally–dare I say it?…spring. Whew! No blizzard blew in as I typed that, so I think we’re okay for the …
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