Claire Eamer’s fantasy story “Ice Pirates” will appear in Tesseracts 15, the latest edition of the popular Canadian speculative fiction anthology. Tesseracts 15 is the franchise’s first venture into the Young Adult market. Editors are Julie E. Czerneda and Susan MacGregor, both experienced in writing and editing fiction for young people.
The lengthy epic journey of my high fantasy “Rast” hits a milestone today. Having been started in 2003, under contract once before (until I had a fight with IRS paperwork), rejected about half a dozen times, kicked its heels in in-boxes for cumulative years, the novel has at last reached the general public through my new publisher MuseItUp from Montreal.
A ‘different’ fantasy with no f****** elves (to please C.S. Lewis), magic that is a deadly sentient force instead of a handy parlour trick, the satirizing of a mechanistic invader, whose men disbelieve in magic, and a sorcerer king who carries out his own, fatal, intifada, “Rast” is offering a fresh look at the genre.
Nina Munteanu, author of the Darwin duology, will be in Nova Scotia March 2011, teaching several writing workshops in Halifax and the South Shore.
She will also be speaking in several Halifax schools and will be doing readings at libraries. See her website for locations.
Nina will be signing her latest book Angel of Chaos at several Halifax bookstores, locations to be announced shortly on her website.
Check Nina’s website, http://www.ninamunteanu.com/, for detailed information on workshops that include location, date, time & duration, and cost. Reference materials include her fiction writing textnook “The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!”.
Courses include:
•“How to Write and Publish Science Fiction” on March 12 (through the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia)
•“The Writer’s Toolkit” on March 19 (through the Tantallon Public Library)
•“Writing the Memoir: from Idea to Research to Storytelling” date TBA (through South Shore Public Libraries)
•“10 Commandments of Fiction Writing” date TBA (through South Shore Public Libraries)
A “Ten Questions” interview with Dave has been published on Open Book Toronto.
Arthur Slade of Saskatoon has won the 2010 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for his book The Hunchback Assignments.
“A thrilling tale of an unusual and talented young man.” Publisher’s Weekly
“A full-steam-ahead spy thriller, complete with derring-do, a dastardly villain, and a suitably complex plot.” Quill & Quire starred review.
“The protagonists are likable, the villains are chilling, and the story is action packed.” School Library Journal
No stranger to the limelight, Arthur Slade won the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for his book Dust.
http://www.arthurslade.com
http://www.hunchbackassignments.com
