#WriterWednesday with Edward Willett
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Edward Willet is my guest today for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Finding the uninterrupted time to write.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Typing fast.
Things you need for your writing sessions: My laptop and some place to sit.
Things that hamper your writing: People talking around me. Chatter is fine, but if I can make out individual conversations, I have to put on headphones.
A few of your favorite things: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.
Things you need to throw out: Brown paper packages tied up with string.
Something you’re really good at: Singing.
Something you’re really bad at: Dancing.
Favorite smell: Bacon.
Something that makes you hold your nose: Rotting grain (I worked as a college student in a grain elevator.)
Things you always put in your books: Whenever possible, some sort of nod to Saskatchewan.
Things you never put in your books: Preachiness.
Things to say to an author: I couldn’t put it down.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Books are boring, why do you write them?
Favorite books (or genre): Science fiction and fantasy.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Political screeds.
Favorite things to do: Read, write, sing, eat.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Yard work.
Best thing you’ve ever done: Marrying my wife.
Biggest mistake: Not finding and marrying her sooner.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Skydiving.
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: Performed in musical theatre.
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: Starting a publishing company.
About Edward:
Edward Willett is the author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction for readers of all ages. Marseguro (DAW Books) won the Aurora Award (honouring Canadian science fiction and fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English; his young adult fantasy Spirit Singer won a Saskatchewan Book Award. Several other of his books have been shortlisted for those and other awards.
Ed's most recent novel is the far-future humorous outer-space adventure The Tangled Stars (DAW Books). His nonfiction runs the gamut from science books to biographies to history. He hosts Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers (theworldshapers.com), in which he talks to other authors about their latest books, and has Kickstarted five Shapers of Worlds anthologies featuring guests of the podcast, with Shapers of Worlds Volume V being the latest and last.
In 2018, Ed founded Shadowpaw Press, which publishes an eclectic list of books ranging from children's books to literary fiction to young adult novels to science fiction and fantasy.
In addition to being a writer, Ed is a professional actor and singer. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P. Eng., a past president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. They have one daughter, Alice, and a black Siberian cat, Shadowpaw.
Let’s Be Social:
Website: http://edwardwillett.com
Shadowpaw Press Website: http://shadowpawpress.com
Facebook: @edward.willett, @shadowpawpress
X: @ewillett, @shadowpawpress
Instagram: @edwardwillettauthor, @shadowpawpress
Bluesky: @edwardwillett.bsky.social
YouTube: @edwardwillett
