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Shards of Excalibur audiobooks available again!

The Shards of Excalibur audiobooks, narrated by the wonderful Elizabeth Klett, are now available again after being off the market for a short while. Best of all, while they’re once more on Audible.com and Audible.ca, you can also find them in many other audiobook stores, such as Apple’s and Kobo’s. Or, better yet, download them …

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New edition of my YA fantasy The Dark Unicorn available now!

I’ve been meaning to create a new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, for a long time, and I finally did it, bringing it out in paperback and ebook (and AI-narrated audiobook) through my Endless Sky Books. Here are some links, but it is widely distributed, so you should be able to get …

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New fantasy novel Fireboy out now!

Fireboy, the new middle-grade/young-YA modern-day fantasy by Edward Willett, published by Shadowpaw Press, is now available everywhere! “ I knew things were getting weird when I saw my best friend’s face in the campfire. I didn’t realize how weird until the campfire followed me home . . .” Thirteen-year-old Samantha “Sam” MacReady is nervous about …

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New omnibus ebook edition available, plus new print editions, at huge savings!

For the first time, you can now buy the entire Shards of Excalibur series in a single omnibus ebook! Just released by Shadowpaw Press, this includes the latest editions of the books, and costs only half as much as buying all five ebooks separately! Available on Amazon (and soon everywhere else) or directly from Shadowpaw …

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My 12th novel for DAW Books, The Tangled Stars, now available

The Tangled Stars, my far-future humorous space opera from DAW Books, is now available everywhere in ebook and audiobook (narrated by Wayne Mitchell). For an introduction to the main characters, check out “Thibauld’s Tale” in Shapers of Worlds Volume II, the second of the anthologies I’ve Kickstarted featuring authors who were guest on my podcast, The Worldshapers . . . …

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New anthology Shapers of Worlds Volume III now available!

Shapers of Worlds Volume III, the third anthology I’ve Kickstarted that features science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, has now officially been released upon the world. This handy link provides links to many sources of the ebook, paperback, and hardcover: books2read.com/shapersofworlds3 You can also get it directly from …

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My E.C. Blake young adult fantasy trilogy the Masks of Aygrima now complete in audiobook

It’s taken a while, but Faces, the third book in the Masks of Aygrima trilogy I wrote for DAW Books under the pseudonym E.C. Blake, is now out in audiobook format to join the audiobooks of the first two, Masks and Shadows. All are produced by Recorded Books. Links below are to Amazon.com, but the audiobooks are …

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Available now: Shapers of Worlds Volume II!

 Shapers of Worlds Volume II, a new anthology featuring writers who were guests during the second year of my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere! Shapers of Worlds Volume II will feature new fiction from Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Helen Dale, Candas Jane Dorsey, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, James Alan Gardner, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Lisa …

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I Read Canadian Day video

February 17 is I Read Canadian Day, and to promote Canadian books and bookstores, a number of children’s authors across the country posted videos drawing attention to that fact and to a local bookstore–as well, of course, as their own books. Here’s the one I did, on the frozen shores of Wascana Lake here in Regina, right …

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A new YA fantasy novel: Blue Fire

Shadowpaw Press has just released the ebook of Blue Fire, a new young adult fantasy, written as by E.C. Blake. (One of my pseudonyms.) A print version will follow in a few weeks. Blue Fire is a revised edition of a novel originally released by the now-defunct Rebelight Publishing as Flames of Nevyana. Here are some purchase links, with …

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