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I normally try to keep my opinions to myself on some things

But really?

If you didn’t click on the link, a conservation officer shot a wild deer that was kicking it with some Hutterites. Thing is, Manitoba is crawling with deer – come to think of it, last time I was strawberry picking at Connery’s, they had a deer wandering around munching on berries and I was all like, “Eh, I used to live in Charleswood… the deer look both ways across the street before crossing.” The magic of deer wore off some time long ago – they’re about as interesting to me as squ...

Blog Hoppin’

Celia Breslin, one of the authors I interviewed around Christmas time (well, in the bonus round, anyway…) interviewed me over at her blog.

In random musings, this is just an observation not so much for my book so much as others I’ve written – I noticed when I was searching out reviewer blogs and I noticed something I hadn’t before. I like that we actually have terms like “YA, Middle Grade, Adult” but this “New Adult” is throwing me, but only because I seem to read sci-fi/fantasy books (and wri...

Second Thoughts/Jitters

Even though we were delayed, for whatever reason I’m now having the ‘And why would anybody read what I have to say?’ thought process – which happens ironically not when I get in front of people but whenever I hand a project in – I can handle you face to face or in a crowd, the thought of later freaks me out a bit.

Eh, I talked about the irony of not being scared of running into a burning building but scared of doing badly at it years ago with my friends, so assume I’m over it and I’m just bein...

Book Blogging and Other Fun

I just learned that submitting to potential bloggers is kinda like submitting to editors – yet for whatever reason, I find it way more awkward.

So far, I’m booked for March for a blog-tour with Reading Addiction Tour Group, and it’s kinda neat to see the people adding the book go up on Goodreads.

They’re still looking for vacancies – so if you’re a book blogger and you’re looking for something, my book and others are up for grabs on this page. The tour page says they want around 100 readers per...

2013 Prix Aurora Awards

If you’re Canadian, you can start nominating Canadian material for the 2013 Prix Aurora Awards, more details here.

I don’t have any preferences at this point in time – I’ll probably have to take a look at the eligibility list to start deciding who I”ll vote for.

Guest Interview: Celia Breslin

I’m not currently doing a theme of interviews, but today’s guest is up-and-coming Champagne Author, Celia Breslin, and she’s here to talk to us today about her debut novel, Haven!

Celia Breslin lives in Northern California with her family. She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance about vampires, mermen, The Fae, and assorted other sexy and mysterious creatures of the Otherworld. Her debut novel, HAVEN, releases July 2013 from Champagne Books (BURST imprint).

You can connect with Celia v...

Winnipeg Sci-Fi Author wins Prestigious Award

Ask and you shall recieve! I just got this message in my email, and I’d like to pass along some congratulations – I’m not going to blather, I’ll pass the message along, italics means it was lifted in its entirety out of the email I recieved from the EDGENewsletter. I got zero affiliation with the author and/or EDGE besides my appearing in the last Tesseracts.

http://www.edgewebsite.com/books/alphanauts/an-catalog.html

Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing is delighted to announce that autho...

Release Date Hiccup/Free Reads

Tower of Obsidian‘s release date has been postphoned for another month – we ran into some technical issues (I blame shawmail) and none of us wanted to give up on quality so I’ll post something official when it’s up and we’re good. (Well, maybe I wanted to give up on quality a little but the good shoulder angel smacked some sense into me).

I was putting on my thinking cap as to how to keep this blog entertaining – I like to support Canadian-related publishing stuff, so I think one of my things...

Writing Resolutions

I might as well jump on the bandwagon.

My usual deal in terms of writing has just been write a novel every year – which I’ve pretty much done consistently post-uni besides last year, but I’m just finishing up the last manuscript. I started a new one for nanowrimo in November but I’m kinda meh about it – honestly, my bigger drive has been working on my digital coloring (for whatever reason, my penciling has gotten way better – it’s like I’m getting more fluid). I think if anything, I need to ge...

The Twelve(ish) Days of Authors – Day 12, Cotton E. Davis

Today brings us to our last scheduled interview – I really enjoyed doing this, so I might try this again in a few months.

Anyhow, up last is Burst author Cotton E. Davis, and he’s here to talk about his science-fiction novel, TimeWarp, Inc. I’d like to welcome Cotton and thank him for agreeing to be interviewed!

In his own words:

My sci-fi novel TimeWarp, Inc. is basically the story of an agnostic ex-soldier who travels back in time, where he meets and becomes Christ’s best friend. It was publ...