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Edward Willett
Award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction. Host of the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers. Editor and publisher at Shadowpaw Press. Actor and singer.
Three new releases from Shadowpaw Press!open.substack.com Out now: the last fantasy novel by the late Dave Duncan, the 20th-anniversary edition of an acclaimed Indigenous author's debut poetry collection, and a new poetry collection focused on mental health
Unlocking Hidden Memories: Mark Morton’s Dystopian Masterpiece ‘The Headmasters’www.youtube.com YouTube video by Writers Corner Network
The Worldshapers Ep. 181: Dr Robert Runte - Dave Duncan's The Traitor's Son & Corridor to Nightmareyoutu.be A chat with editor Robert Runté, Ph.D., about the last two novels by the late, great Dave Duncan's, The Traitor's Son and Corridor to Nightmare, which he edited and which were just released by Shadowpaw Press. Website essentialedits.ca X @runte Facebook @dr.robert.runte Instagram @drrunte About The Traitor's Son “They know the world is dying, but they hope not in their lifetimes. Meanwhile, they’re top dogs and will do anything to stay that way.” Doig Gray is fifteen when his father is killed in a mining accident, which Doig comes to realizes was no accident. Torn from his mother and sister, Doig is sent off to college, his every movement monitored in case he has inherited his dissident father’s unacceptable attitudes . . . or passwords. Doig has nothing but his own sense that there’s something desperately wrong with the world—and a last name that evokes the assumption that he’s destined to be the next traitor-hero. The Traitor’s Son is a science fiction novel about a colony world where everything that could go wrong already has. Stuck on the wrong world at the wrong site, with the wrong leaders, the colony is doomed to extinction unless immediate steps are taken to correct—everything. But 500 years of hiding from the reality of their situation has created an unchallengeable status quo—and the Accident Squad, determined to ensure it remains that way. The Traitor’s Son is a fast-paced SF adventure in the best tradition of Duncan’s Hero, West of January, and Eocene Station. About Corridor to Nightmare The never-before-published final novel by the late Dave Duncan, one of Canada’s most beloved authors of fantasy and science fiction When one life ends, another begins. After forty years as the village school teacher in the idyllic valley of Greenbottom, Agatha is looking forward to a quiet retirement. Instead, an enigmatic stranger arrives to drag her through a long-closed portal to another world. Confronted with a completely foreign culture steeped in magic and violence, Agatha finds herself a crucial pawn being played between rival factions. The only way forward through the rigid traditions and convoluted politics of the Archons of Otopia is to remain true to herself and her Greenbottom ideals. But will it be enough to save, not only herself, but the man to whom she is now magically bound in love? Praise for Dave Duncan "Dave Duncan writes rollicking adventure novels filled with subtle characterization and made bitter-sweet by an underlying darkness. Without striving for grand effects or momentous meetings between genres, he has produced one excellent book after another." - Locus Magazine "Duncan is an exceedingly finished stylist and a master of world building and characterization." - Booklist "Dave Duncan has long been one of the great unsung figures of Canadian fantasy and science fiction, graced with a fertile imagination, a prolific output, and keen writerly skills." - Quill & Quire About Dr. Robert Runté Robert Runté, Ph.D., is Senior Academic Editor with EssentialEdits.ca and freelances at SFeditor.ca. He was, for nearly a decade, senior editor at Five Rivers Publishing, where he acquired and edited more than thirty books, primarily speculative fiction. A retired professor, he has won three Aurora Awards (Canadian SF&F) for his literary criticism, wrote the Canadian speculative fiction entry for the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, published the NCF Guide to Canadian SF, and has given more than a hundred presentations and workshops at writers’ conferences. He currently reviews for the Ottawa Review of Books . As a writer, he has published more than sixty short stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies, six of which were reprinted in “best of” collections, and one of which was short-listed for an Aurora Award. About Dave Duncan Born and raised in Scotland, Dave Duncan moved to Calgary, Alberta, after graduating from university to take up his thirty-year career as a geologist. As the oil boom faltered in the 1980s, he sold his first novel and switched careers to become one of the most prolific and popular Canadian authors of science fiction and fantasy, with more than sixty-five traditionally published novels. Early in his career, he was producing books so fast his publisher could not keep up, so he wrote a fantasy trilogy under the name Ken Hood for a different house and a historical novel about the fall of Troy as Sarah B. Franklin. Duncan won the Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1990 and again in 2007, and was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement in 2015. Duncan had just finished Corridor to Nightmare and was awaiting final edits on The Traitor’s Son when he died, on October 29, 2018.
The Door at the End of Everything by Lynda Monahanscribblesworth.com The Door at the End of Everything is a collection of poems written by Lynda Monahan. These poems will pull at your heartstrings, and bring tears to your eyes, but they will also bring you hope. Writte...
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Walking in Regina, August 4, 2024: Scarth Street to Crescents by lakewww.youtube.com Take a walk in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada with author, publisher, and podcaster Edward Willett.This stream is created with #PRISMLiveStudio
The Worldshapers, Episode 180: Erna Buffie - Let Us Be Trueyoutu.be A chat with author Erna Buffie about the new edition of her critically acclaimed debut novel Let Us Be True.Websiteernabuffie.comAbout the bookFinalist for t...
Walking in Regina, August 2, 2024: A roundabout walk to the soundstagewww.youtube.com Take a walk in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada with author, publisher, and podcaster Edward Willett.This stream is created with #PRISMLiveStudio
Walking in Regina, July 29, 2024: Downtown on a Mondaywww.youtube.com Take a walk in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada with author, publisher, and podcaster Edward Willett.This stream is created with #PRISMLiveStudio
The Worldshapers, Episode 179: Shawn Amick - The Cruelty of Magicyoutu.be A chat with author Shawn Amick about his upcoming high fantasy novel The Dissonance.Websiteshawnamick.comTikTok@shawnamickauthorInstagram@shawnamickauthorThr...
Walking in Regina, July 22, 2024: A smoky walk along the creekwww.youtube.com Take a walk in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada with author, publisher, and podcaster Edward Willett.This stream is created with #PRISMLiveStudio
The Worldshapers, Episode 178: Shaun Hamill - The Dissonanceyoutu.be A chat with critically acclaimed author Shaun Hamill about his new dark fantasy novel The Dissonance. Website shaunhamill.com X @shaunhamill Instagram @shaunhamill About the Book From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters ("I loved it" —Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It: a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances. "You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far worse: a murderous entity whose desperate, driving purpose includes kidnapping Owen to serve as its Renfield. As Owen tries to outwit his new master, and Hal, Athena, and Erin reckon with how the choices they made as teens might connect to the apocalyptic event unfurling over the Lone Star State, shocking alliances form, old and new romances brew, and three unsuccessful adults and one frightened teen are all that stand between reality and oblivion. From one of the boldest, most brilliant voices in modern fantastical horror, The Dissonance is a thrilling and beautifully written story of magic and monsters, forgiveness and friendship. Praise for The Dissonance “One of the most ambitious genre books of the year, and we’d expect nothing less from Hamill.” —Matthew Jackson, Paste “A brilliantly rendered tale of friendship, redemption, cosmic horror, and so much heart. The Dissonance cements Hamill as a master world-builder and one of the most exciting voices in fantasy today. I already want to reread this book.” —Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author of House of Roots and Ruin “Pure magic. A novel that sparks with wonder, heartbreak, and hope. Wildly endearing and compulsively readable, with an immersive, richly drawn world and vibrant characters you’ll never forget. The truths within—about friendship, about pain, about growing up and making mistakes— are beautiful and absolute. A masterpiece.” —Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep and Such Sharp Teeth "The most impressive magical feat of The Dissonance are the four teen friends and their complicated, cringy, familiar wart-filled relationship, one imbued with enough love to refill your soul. The result is that this wildly imaginative, thrilling, time-hopping, magic and monsters epic feels authentic and lived in. Not sure how Shaun did it. The jerk." —Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts "Shaun Hamill proves there are strange new worlds yet to be explored on the bookshelf. The Dissonance is yet another testament to Hamill's mantel as a master storyteller, blending the terrors and wonders of traumatic magic. You won't read another novel quite like The Dissonance this year, or perhaps ever in this life—or even beyond it." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters “Dark and enchanting. . . . Hamill weaves a tale of magic, teen angst, [and] the power of enduring friendship. . . . Fantasy readers won’t want to put this down.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Exceptional plotting. . . . This is dark academia that takes place in someone’s backyard, sweeping the protagonists into a whirlwind of cosmic horrors and alternate dimensions. It’s also a moving tale of the friendship between believable characters that are rough around the edges. A great pick for fans of Stephen King’s It, only with a more fantastical and angsty edge.” —Andrea Dyba, Library Journal “A treat for readers whose nostalgia gravitates to the likes of Stand by Me, Twin Peaks, or, most thematically, Stephen King’s It. In a similar vein to Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black novels or Stephen Graham Jones’ Indian Lake trilogy, Hamill takes some ordinary young people and puts them through the metaphysical wringer to see what’s left at the end. . . . A wistful, emotional roller coaster.” —Kirkus Reviews About Sean Hamill Sean Hamill received his BA in English from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His debut novel, A Cosmology of Monsters, was published in 2019. His fiction has appeared in Carve and Come Join Us By the Fire 2. His nonfiction has appeared at Crimereads and Tor Nightfire. He lives and works near Dallas-Fort Worth.
Interview with Robert J. Sawyerwww.youtube.com A discussion with the acclaimed Sci-Fi writer on his works, turning a book into a TV series, and more. Moderated by Ed Willett.
Interview with Robert J. Sawyerwww.youtube.com A discussion with the acclaimed Sci-Fi writer on his works, turning a book into a TV series, and more. Moderated by Ed Willett.
Enjoy my "Senior Moment"open.substack.com For my birthday, I put on a show, and you can watch it now on YouTube! Also: a round-up of recent podcast episodes
New release!open.substack.com Critically acclaimed literary novel Let Us Be True by Erna Buffie out now in new Shadowpaw Press Reprise edition