My latest “Space-Time Continuum” column from the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild‘s newsletter Freelance… *** This column I want to return to the World Fantasy Convention held in Toronto last November…and a panel that rubbed me the wrong way. Entitled “The Changing Face of YA Fantasy,” the panel was described this way: “Fantasy works for young adult …
Star Song shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book Award
Yesterday, the shortlist for this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards was announced, and I’m pleased to say that my young adult science fiction novel Star Song, previously shortlisted for the Aurora Award for Best Young Adult Novel, is a …
Featured in Regina Lyric Musical Theatre 45th Anniversary video
Regina Lyric Musical Theatre, which I’ve involved with since 1989, recently marked its 45th anniversary with a gala celebration and concert that I was part of. This video was produced in conjunction with that by …
Star Song now available as audiobook
My Aurora- and Saskatchewan Book Award-nominated young adult science fiction novel Star Song is now available in audiobook format, narrated by Amy Cau Nugent. You can find it on Audible, Amazon (here are the Canadian …
RUNNING NOW: Kickstarter campaign for SHAPERS OF WORLDS VOLUME IV
The Kickstarter campaign for Shapers of Worlds Volume IV is now live for the fourth annual anthology featuring some of the top writers of science fiction and fantasy working today, all of whom were guests …
Julie Czerneda and I talk about our latest novels
Enjoy this conversation between Julie Czerneda and me about our latest novels from DAW Books–mine The Tangled Stars and hers To Each This World. This was supposed to be video from start to finish but …
The Space-Time Continuum: Neologisms
Here’s my latest Space-Time Continuum column from the January 2023 issue of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s magazine, Freelance. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what …
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The Space-Time Continuum: “Dammit, Jim, I’m a storyteller, not a social worker!”
- By Edward Willett in Blog, Columns, Science Fiction Columns, Writing and Editing
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February 15, 2013
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Saturday Special from the Vaults: The City Must Die
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May 13, 2012
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Chapter One of a YA novel I hope to finish someday…The City Must Die (that’;s an entirely fictitious cover). Why is it unfinished? Well, because I sold Masks instead, I guess. But reading this over again for the first time in months, I realized I really want to write this one. There’s actually a different …
Saturday Special from the Vaults (a bit late): Chapter 1 of The Chosen
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March 26, 2012
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This week’s Saturday-special-I’m-actually-posting-on-Monday is the first chapter of the YA science fiction novel (dystopian before dystopian YA SF was cool!) I just epublished last week: The Chosen. The original version of this book was only the second novel I wrote out of university, but I rewrote it sometime in the last few years. It never …
Saturday Special from the Vaults: The Minstrel
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March 10, 2012
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This week, another early story of mine. This is one of the earliest stories I sold, to a long-defunct Canadian children’s magazine called JAM. In fact, it was the cover story, and if I ever figure out where I put the magazine I’ll post the cover art here. It’s of roughly the same era as …
Saturday Special from the Vaults: Janitor Work
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February 12, 2012
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This was one of the first, if not the very first, science fiction short stories I ever sold. It appeared in the 1984 Canadian Children’s Annual, the year I turned 25. The photo of the lunar surface is from Apollo 17. Darryl Norton looked glumly at the dust-covered object before him. It seemed to him …
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