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Star Song and The Worldshapers shortlisted for Aurora Awards

I’m pleased to announce that I’m a finalist for two Aurora Awards this year. Star Song is a finalist for the Best Young Adult Novel Award, while my podcast, The Worldshapers, is a finalist, for the third time in four years, for Best Fan Related Work. It won the award in 2019. This is the third time I’ve been shortlisted for best YA novel; the previous finalists were Twist of the Blade and Door...

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Kickstarter for Shapers of Worlds Volume III succeeded!

Each of the past two years I’ve successfully Kickstarted an anthology featuring authors who were guests of my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, where I talk to other science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process (check out the sidebar for the most recent episodes). Well, I did it again! The Kickstarter for the anthology feature third-year guests of the podcast )at...

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Kickstarter for Shapers of Worlds Volume III NOW LIVE!

Each of the past two years I’ve successfully Kickstarted an anthology featuring authors who were guests of my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, where I talk to other science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process (check out the sidebar for the most recent episodes). It’s time to do it again! The Kickstarter for the anthology feature third-year guests of the podcast is...

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Kickstarter for Shapers of Worlds Volume III launches March 8!

Each of the past two years I’ve successfully Kickstarted an anthology featuring authors who were guests of my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, where I talk to other science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process (check out the sidebar for the most recent episodes). It’s time to do it again! The pre-launch page is now live at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/

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Shadowpaw Press Reprise open for submissions of previously published work

Shadowpaw Press, the publishing company I founded in 2018, is moving up in the world! This fall, Shadowpaw Press will publish two new books: a young adult novella by award-winning Canadian author Matthew Hughes, called The Emir’s Falcon, and Thickwood, the first novel by a new Saskatchewan author, Gayle M. Smith. The books will appear under Shadowpaw Press’s Premiere imprint.

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Read the introduction to Shapers of Worlds Volume II

With Shapers of Worlds Volume II, the second anthology I’ve Kickstarted that features guests from my Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers, now available everywhere, I thought you might enjoy reading the introduction I wrote for it. Again, Shapers of Worlds Volume II features brand-new stories from Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Garth Nix, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jeremy Szal, Edward Willett...

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Now available: Shapers of Worlds Volume II

Shapers of Worlds Volume II, the anthology I Kickstarted earlier this year featuring short fiction by authors who were guests during the second year of my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available pretty much everywhere, in ebook, trade paperback, and hardcover. Use this handy universal URL, or order directly from Shadowpaw Press, which is now offering FREE SHIPPING for...

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Pre-orders now available for Shapers of Worlds Volume II

You can now pre-order Shapers of Worlds Volume II, the anthology I Kickstarted earlier this year featuring short fiction by authors who were guests during the second year of my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, in which I interview other science fiction and fantasy authors about their creative process. Release date for the book is November 2, with ebook, trade paperback...

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Read the first two chapters of my new YA science fiction novel Star Song

Available directly from Shadowpaw Press or get it now from your favorite vendor! Read the first two chapters My newest novel is a young adult science fiction adventure in the style of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton, published by Shadowpaw Press. Let me take you back in time . . . It’s October 1985. I’m 26 years old, and I’m the news editor of the Weyburn Review, and I’ve just sold a short...

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I’m now on the board of SaskBooks

I was honoured at yesterday’s annual general meeting of SaskBooks, Saskatchewan’s provincial creative industry association for book publishers, to be elected to the board of directors. I look forward to helping the organization continue to build and promote the Saskatchewan publishing industry, of which I’m a part through Shadowpaw Press. More about SaskBooks: We don’t publish books...

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