I’m back! I’ll post more about my exploits with the Canadian Chamber Choir (which is what kept me away from the computer and hence from this blog for the last week) soon, but in the meantime, let’s get things rolling forward again with this list of the Aurora Award winners for the best Canadian SF …
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The full cover for my new novel, Marseguro…
…arrived via FedEx today, along with the page proofs which I must now carefully proofread and get back to DAW by October 26. Woo-hoo! Here’s the full cover: The blurb above the title reads “Can the hidden colony of Marseguro survive rediscovery?” And here’s the back copy: Marseguro, a water world far distant from Earth, …
A few reader comments for Lost in Translation…
…from Paperback Swap: “Great story about two empaths from different species who must work together to find common ground and avert interstellar war. Enjoyed the character development (human and alien).” “This book was a very good read for me. The characters were good and well thought out. The author took the homage of walking in …
Marseguro description in Publisher’s Weekly
Dug up on the Web: a description of Marseguro from the August 6 Publisher’s Weekly: Marseguro (Jan., $7.99) by Edward Willett. After a worldwide disaster, a fanatical religious theocracy takes over the planet.Well, yes, but that’s not really what the story is about. In fact, that’s really the backstory. What happens is… Well, you’ll see.
Looking ahead to 2008…
…it appears I will be writing two more books for Enslow‘s American Rebels series, for which I wrote the Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin biographies: one on Johnny Cash and one on Andy Warhol. Should be fun! Now I should really finish the two pending Enslow books I have to write…
More on Madeleine L’Engle
John Podhoretz posts a lovely personal memory of growing up in the building in New York where she lived. And here’s one of those more complete obituaries I predicted would quickly appear.
Madeleine L’Engle, R.I.P.
Publisher’s Weekly reports that Madeleine L’Engle has died, and posts a short obituary:Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 89. Best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, L’Engle was the author of more than 60 books for adults and young readers, most …
An Andy Nebula blog review:
“Fun old fashioned sf. I didn’t like the main characters, but it’s flippantly cheesy.” – Goblin Wintercearig. Hey, I want “Flippantly cheesy!” emblazoned on my next book. I think it’s my favorite review quote thus far.
Science fiction writers heading to Mars!
Well, sort of. Actually, it’s their words that are heading to Mars, as part of a DVD compiled by The Planetary Society and launched with the Phoenix lander, due to touch down next May.
Broadway debut for a promising playwright…
…a fellow by the name (well, technically, nom de plume) of Mark Twain: Set in France in the 1840s, Is He Dead? follows a group of starving artists who stage the death of their mentor in an effort to boost the value of his work.Twain wrote it in 1898 (he died in 1910), but it …
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