With the upcoming release of my Wyrd West Chronicles, I’ll be participating in an indie fiction authors’ event to share our work and promote community-building! By Any Means Necessary is a Facebook takeover event where writers post about their work and what drives them to write for a scheduled period of time. I’m scheduled for […]
Read More By Any Means Necessary: An Indie Authors’ Event!My playlist for writing my near-future space thriller The Cloud. A lot of the music in this list is suspenseful as opposed to action-oriented to capture the mood.
Read More Space Music PlaylistI feature the technology of the James Webb telescope prominently in my near-future novel about asteroid mining in deep space, The Cloud: Who Will Get First Dibs on the Powerful James Webb Space Telescope? NASA has issued solicitation for science projects using the long-awaited and incredibly powerful successor to Hubble, which is scheduled to launch […]
Read More James Webb Telescope Taking Project ProposalsDo you ever wonder what writers listen to when they write? For me it depends on the nature of the story I’m telling, and its setting. For the Wyrd West Chronicles I like to listen to spaghetti western theme music, epic fantasy and game music written in a similar style, a handful of steampunk music […]
Read More A Weird West PlaylistIllustrator and game developer Aaron Siddall has commissioned me to write flavour text for the game he’s developing, Tales of the Stellar Deep. Ray Gun Gothic meets the Cthulu Mythos! Here’s a primer on what Ray Gun Gothic is all about: “The future was a chrome-trimmed triangular window in the front of dad’s car, and […]
Read More Ray Gun GothicI didn’t realize when I started writing my Wyrd West Chronicles that there was actually a genre for this! No new ideas under the sun, I guess; but then again, it seems that my take is just a little bit unique. Less dark overall than the usual depiction; more high fantasy. Speaking of which, I’ll be […]
Read More The Weird WestWhen terrorism strikes in Canada, we hold vigils. We cry a lot. We get angry. We defend each other. And then we go back to work and get on with our lives. The truth is that a terrorist of any […] Source: What Terrorism Means #AvecQuebec
Read More What Terrorism Means #AvecQuebecHere’s a good article from Tor.com about the Weird West. Except that I disagree with their opening. The Wild West is Canadian too. It’s unfortunate that we seem to be letting the Americans get away with claiming that myth as their own. It is American, but everything West of Winnipeg has this as part of our […]
Read More A Weird West PrimerSo I figured it was time I talked a bit about my own writing, because I’m excited about it and I want other people to get excited about it! I’ve got a few irons in the fire right now: I’m working on two novels at the moment. The one I’m giving my most immediate attention […]
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