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Keycon 2014

It’s May Long, and for once, I got some of the long weekend off. Unfortunately I can’t make it to Keycon today as I’m back at work in Gladstone, but it’s been a busy few weeks and Ron will still be at the Radisson todayfor the next fewhourswith some books for sale, so drop by and say hi if you’re so inclined – ask him questions about our publisher or publishing in general, it’ll keep him on his toes. It’s also a great place to check out other local authors and other artists of the science fic...

FanExpo Regina / I like Unicorns

That’s all the pictures you get in this post, sorry. One of yours truly taken by her awesome sister, who came with her last minute for the five and a half-hour drive. I’m a medic so I’m used to long drives, but she was a trooper. My publisher had to pull out but she said I could still use the table if I so chose, so I so chose and a huge thank-you to R.J. Hore who loaned me the Burst Sign and his merchandise so I didn’t look like a one-trick pony.

Neigh.

Had a really good time – met Peter S. Be...

Tours N Reviews N Things

Almost completelymoved into my new place – I started a term position at the beginning of this month,so let’s just say it’s been busy. I lucked out and got a place right on base and it’s a lot more space then I’m used to. The dog loves it so far, though yesterday he was playing with one of his new little furry friends and didn’t watch where he was going, so he ended up in a ditch full of water. Is it wrong my reaction was cackling? (He likes to swim and it’s relatively warm out for a change; I...

Why Independence Matters

Before I go into my sphiel, me and a few other Burst Authors are in the middle of a Tour – Check it Out.

Final Attempt to Plea for the Aurora Awards – nominations shut down in a few days (April 12). And you might be thinking to yourself, “Well, what’s it matter, in the end?” Let’s put it this way – last year, they send out Efiles on all the nominees so people like myself could sample all the award winners and determine the winner. I know it seems very small and trivial a thing, but this is so...

C4 Lit Fest Recaps

Before I go on about C4, I’d just like to give a shout out to several nominees regarding the Manitoba Book Awards - you know who you are.

And on that note, go vote for a Canadian at the Aurora Awards.And if you’re thinking to yourself, “Well, I don’t know any Canadians to vote for.” Look at that Manitoba Book Awards Link. Look below to some of the people I was with at the C4 Literary Festival. You have some homework in the meantime.

On to C4! Don’t know how it went on Saturday, as I almost got...

Writing Process Blog Hop/2014 C4 Lit Fest

Made it to the latter half of the C4 Lit fest – let’s just say that I’m getting tired and I’ll talk about it tomorrow. It didn’t seem as busy as last year, but we had Junos to compete, so my guess is that they won.

I got tagged by Rita Bay, and I tag Audra Middleton,Jenn Nixon, andI’ll tag the third person when they respond to my email.

The Writing Process

What am I working on?

Finishing up a sword and sorcery tale; sort-of started on this steampunk/horror short. And by short I mean I want it to...

Book Tours/Still hate this new computer

First world problems aside,I’ll stop whining when I can post this without a page being hijacked, and my keyboard actually responds. Until then, CAPSLOCK RAGE. Seriously though, if I wanted the cutesie mac stuff, I would have bought a mac. Windows 8 blows.

And me and a few other of the Burst Authors are doing a group Book Tour – I’ll hotlink later, here’s the banner:

I’ll let you know when I have more details – methinks I need to get more stuff under contract because I look like a total slacker...

Pants on Fire

I was very wrong about the short story contest being over for the C4 Lit fest - apparently I was looking at last year’s stuff (I didn’t know about C4 until the week before, and only because Ron told me) so if you’re from Manitoba, you have until March 17 to get your short story in.

And while we’re talking Canadians – I don’t think the new site is up (I haven’t gotten my usual email yet) but consider the Prix Aurora Awards. If you’re thinking you’d like to support more small science-fiction and...

So my book’s been out for a year now / What I’ve learned

Before I get too far – C4′s gearing up for the end of the month. It’ll be at the Norwood Hotel in Winnipeg – in the meantime, you can check out the lineup/authors and do some funvoting ahead of time here. Congratulation to the winners and runners up of the short story contest.

So my first book’s been out for a year as of February (blah blah blah no laptop, see last post). The eBook, anyway – I didn’t get my paws on to a hard copy of Tower of Obsidian until the last week of October, but given t...

Change is Good, which is why I drag my feet

I don’t know about the rest of you, but my February was a blur – I started the new job in January but I’ve been working both. That’s not why I haven’t been updating – my beloved Poochy-Poo spilled tea on my old laptop back in December. Now, I drink it black and the dog just got caught in the charger cord, so I was able to save just about everything important on my laptop before it went and died, which is mostly my books, short stories and pictures from a few weddings, but I lost my contact sh...