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Still Time to Nominate, ahem, for Prix Aurora Award...

Shameless self-promotion warning!!!

I notice some of my colleagues are gently advertising the fact that their recent works are eligible for nomination for Aurora Awards. Well, so are a couple of mine, in the category "Best Short-Form Work In English – 2009".

To wit:

"The Brídeog" in Escape Clause, edited by Clélie Rich, and "Dreamcatcher" in Room Magazine , Vol. 32.2.

Anyone who is a citizen or resident of Canada can submit a nomination. Nominations are free and can be submitted by mail or...

Book Club Set

The Vancouver Public Library now has a book club set of Finding Creatures & Other Stories:

Finding creatures & other stories / by C. June Wolf ; [with an introduction by Charles de Lint:].
by Wolf, C. June, 1957-Wattle and Daub Books, 2008.Call #: BOOK CLUB SETS - W

Update on Dad, plus Fog

It's been a while since I posted anything here.

My dad died on 10 December and I stayed on in Manitoba for the funeral and to hang out with the family awhile. I'm back in Vancouver but the strain of events has triggered full-blown fibromyalgia and fatigue; not getting much done besides comforting the sick I have discovered on returning here. Elisa Jankowski's story is half-written, Bee's book is half-edited, the second draft of my novel is sleeping under dust. Not the end, just an interlude...

Manitoba Soft Snow Blues

Hello to all from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. I'm here visiting with family. My Dad is in hospital, very ill, and we are gathering around to be with him while we still can. He sleeps much of the time, and his voice, when he can speak, is an often inaudible whisper. Today we thought he was dying. This evening he was joking in a soft voice and sipping French vanilla milkshakes. Lots of tears, lots of gentleness. No idea how long before I fly home.

Google Book Settlement: The Thing That Would Not Die

Thanks to all the people who have worked so hard on this baffling and irritating situation. Some good results have come of your diligence. One big one is that prior to these changes, Google had it that any book not currently available new in the US was considered not in print, so anything in any other country was up for grabs for making available without compensation through the Google Books project. No more, thank heaven. Read on...

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Addena on the Drive

Fellow Wattle and Daub author and dear friend Addena Sumter-Freitag is interviewed here by Steven Duncan of Live on the Drive. (That's Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, for the uninitiated.)

Isn't she lovely?

Creating Timelines

How to SORT OF hunker down and work while finding a way to blog instead? Easy! Let me show you.

For Draft One of Lakansyèl I wrote an outline but not a timeline. Since then I've created a lot more scenes (a LOT more scenes) which need to be plugged in where appropriate through the text and then filed smooth. Daunting? You bet!

I figure the miracle tool I need to get me out of this quagmire is a timeline program that I can input the various actions into and see where I need to go. This is the...

New Review! by Lorina Stephens

Review: Finding Creatures & other stories The cover of C. June Wolf's collection of speculative shorts was enough to snare my attention, although the title supported that dynamic image. Then when I saw the man himself, Charles de Lint, had given his unequivocal support to the publication, I knew I would put aside everything else on my reading mountain.

It was an excellent decision.

There are fifteen stories that make up this eclectic collection, ranging from pure speculative, science...

BBB Winners!

Got the word today on who won the prizes from my Bitten By Books chat. There was an unavoidable delay in the proceedings but we're back on track now.

Elisa Jankowski won the story, and Rose Gabdul won the poem.

Elisa Rocks! Rose Rules! Woohoo!

I'm still excited about this contest, and am looking forward to seeing what Elisa and Rose think up for me to write.

Here again are the rules:

Prize 1: A story written for You. You choose the genre and the time period. Tell me up to three things about the...

Making Up Book Club Questions: A How-To Guide

I don't think I have yet mentioned that the Vancouver Public Library is putting together a book club set of Finding Creatures & Other Stories. They've asked for a number of materials and one is a set of book club questions. Fair enough. I am now at work on that.

Searching around on the net for tips on how to organize my set of questions, I found a number of useful sites. I offer some of their guidelines below. Some Typical Discussion Questions

http://www.canadianbookclubs.com/discuss.html

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