Edward Willett's Blog, page 9
May 8, 2020
The Worldshapers podcast an Aurora Award finalist again for Best Fan Related Work
I’m very pleased to announce that my podcast, The Worldshapers (“Conversations with science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process”) has, for the second year in a row, been nominated for the Aurora Award for Best Fan Related Work–an award it won last year! (That’s the very nice trophy in the photo.
April 1, 2020
Cover art and TOC for upcoming anthology featuring my story “Beneath the Pall”
One inspiration for the Kickstarter I just successfully ran to fund the Shapers of Worlds anthology was Zombies Need Brains LLC, a publishing company set up by my fellow DAW Books author Joshua Palmatier to publish original anthologies, all funded through Kickstarter. Cover art by Justin Adams of Varia Studios For the upcoming anthology My Battery is Low and it is Getting Dark, Josh asked me to be...
Great new StoryBundle includes my first DAW novel, Lost in Translation
The new Bundoran Buddies Book Bundle II, curated by Bundoran Press publisher and editor Hayden Trenholm, is now available. It includes my first novel for DAW Books, Lost in Translation. (I’m definitely a Bundoran Buddy: Bundoran published my Peregrine Rising duology, Right to Know and Falcon’s Egg; Right to Know was part of an earlier Bundoran StoryBundle. I’ll let Hayden fill you in on the...
March 11, 2020
The Banana-Dragon: An improvised fantasy story
Last night I tried out Writers at the Improv, a long-running event in Calgary at ConVersion and more recently at When Words Collide, run there by the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, as a Saskatoon Public Library event, part of my gig as Writer in Residence. When I did it in Regina while writer in residence, I had three teams sign up to compete. Not this time: nobody came to compete...
February 17, 2020
FUNDED: a Kickstarter for an anthology of short fiction from some of today’s top science fiction and fantasy authors
My Kickstarter campaign to fund Shapers of Worlds, an anthology of short stories from some of the authors who were guests my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, in its first year, was a great success, raising $15,700 CDN, well above the original goal of $13,500. As a result, the anthology is full-steam ahead, heading for an August 2020 release. Not long before I started the podcast...
LIVE NOW: a Kickstarter for an anthology of short fiction from some of today’s top science fiction and fantasy authors
IT’S LIVE NOW: a Kickstarter campaign to fund Shapers of Worlds, an anthology of short stories from some of the authors who were guests my podcast, The Worldshapers, in its first year. I’ve always loved talking to other writers about their creative process, so for my podcast, basically, I just decided to record those conversations. I reached out to some of the many amazing writers I’ve met in my...
Announcing a Kickstarter for an anthology of short fiction from some of today’s top science fiction and fantasy authors
It’s coming at the end of February 2020: a Kickstarter campaign to fund Shapers of Worlds, an anthology of short stories from some of the authors who were guests my podcast, The Worldshapers, in its first year. If it funds, the anthology, published by my Shadowpaw Press, will feature new fiction from Seanan McGuire, Tanya Huff, David Weber, Lee Modesitt Jr., D.J. Butler, Christopher Ruocchio...
February 15, 2020
Master of the World shortlisted for Fiction Award, 2020 Saskatchewan Book Awards
The shortlist for this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards, honoring the best books by Saskatchewan authors, was announced Friday, and I’m thrilled to be able to tell you that Master of the World, Book 2 in my Worldshapers series from DAW Books, has been shortlisted for the Fiction Award, sponsored by Muslims for Peace and Justice. This is the second year I’ve been shortlisted in...
February 12, 2020
A new seven-sentence short story
Last night, as part of my ongoing gig as writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library, I led a large group of writers through the Seven-Sentence Short Story exercise, created by science fiction and fantasy author (and former English teacher) James Van Pelt. I’ve used this as an exercise several times now in writing classes and workshops, and always have a blast. Here’.
January 8, 2020
An interview with me from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild newsletter, Freelance
The latest issue of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild newsletter, Freelance, features this interview with me… What drove you to science fiction writing? Like most writers of science fiction and fantasy, I became interested in it because it was what I read. I have two older brothers, both of whom read in the genre, so those were among the many books around our house. As a young reader...
