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Edward Willett

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). Other recent titles include Star Song, a finalist for both the Aurora Award and Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature, published by Shadowpaw Press; Blue Fire (written as E.C. Blake), also from Shadowpaw Press; and the Worldshapers series (Worldshaper, Master of the World, and The Moonlit World) from DAW. His nonfiction runs the gamut from science books to biographies to history. He hosts Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers podcast (theworldshapers.com), in which he talks to other science fiction and fantasy authors about their creative process, and has Kickstarted several Shapers of Worlds anthologies featuring guests of the podcast.

In addition to being a writer, Ed is a professional actor and singer who has performed in numerous plays, musicals, and operas, and sung in several auditioned choirs, including the Canadian Chamber Choir. 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. You can find Ed online at www.edwardwillett.com.

Books by Edward Willett

Shapers of Worlds Volume V

edited by Edward Willett
illustrated by Wendi Nordell

Shapers of Worlds Volume IV

Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

edited by Edward Willett
illustrated by Wendi Nordell

Soulworm

by (author) Edward Willett

Song of the Sword

by (author) Edward Willett

Lake in the Clouds

by (author) Edward Willett

Twist of the Blade

by (author) Edward Willett

Cave Beneath the Sea

by (author) Edward Willett

Door into Faerie

by (author) Edward Willett

Shapers of Worlds Volume III

Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

edited by Edward Willett
by (author) Jane Yolen, James Morrow, Griffin Barber, Miles Cameron, Sebastien de Castell, Doctorow Cory, K. Eason, Kristi Charish, David Ebenbach, Mark Everglade, Joseph Hurtgen, Frank J. Fleming, Violette Malan, Anna Mocikat, Jess E. Owen, Robert Penner, Cat Rambo, K.M. Rice, Walter Jon Williams & F. Paul Wilson

Shapers of Worlds Volume II

Science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

by (author) Edward Willett, Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Garth Nix, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jeremy Szal, Jeffrey A. Carver, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David D. Levine, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Helen Dale, Adria Laycraft, Edward Savio, Lisa Kessler, ira Nayman, Carrie Vaughn, Nancy Kress, James Alan Gardner, Tim Pratt, Barbara Hambly & S.M. Stirling

Star Song

by (author) Edward Willett

Right to Know

by (author) Edward Willett

Falcon's Egg

by (author) Edward Willett

Shapers of Worlds

actor Edward Willett

From the Street to the Stars

by (author) Edward Willett

Master of the World

by (author) Edward Willett
read by Carly Robins

Spirit Singer

by (author) Edward Willett

One Lucky Devil

The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow

by (author) Sampson J. Goodfellow
edited by Edward Willett

Paths to the Stars

Twenty-Two Fantastical Tales of Imagination

by (author) Edward Willett

I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust

by (author) Edward Willett
illustrated by Wendi Nordell

I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust

A Collection of Fantastical Poems

by (author) Edward Willett
illustrated by Wendi Nordell

The Sum of Us

Tales of the Bonded and Bound

edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
by (author) Juliet Marillier, Brenda Cooper, Colleen Anderson, Charlotte Ashley, Ian Creasey, A.M. Dellamonica, Bev Geddes, Claire Humphrey, Sandra Kasturi, Tyler Keevil, Matt Moore, Heather Osborne, Nisi Shawl, Alex Shvartsman, Kate Story, Karina Sumner-Smith, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, James Van Pelt, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Edward Willett, Christie Yant & Caroline M. Yoachim
introduction by Dominik Parisien

The Sum of Us

Tales of the Bonded and Bound

edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
by (author) Juliet Marillier, Brenda Cooper, Colleen Anderson, Charlotte Ashley, Ian Creasey, A.M. Dellamonica, Bev Geddes, Claire Humphrey, Sandra Kasturi, Tyler Keevil, Matt Moore, Heather Osborne, Nisi Shawl, Alex Shvartsman, Kate Story, Karina Sumner-Smith, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, James Van Pelt, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Edward Willett, Christie Yant & Caroline M. Yoachim
introduction by Dominik Parisien

Government House, Regina, Saskatchewan

An Illustrated History

by (author) Edward Willett

Strangers Among Us

Tales of Underdogs and Outcasts

edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
by (author) Kelley Armstrong, James Alan Gardner, Edward Willett, Suzanne Church, A.M. Dellamonica, Gemma Files, Bev Geddes, Erika Holt, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Derwin Mak, Mahtab Narsimhan, Sherry Peters, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Hayden Trenholm, Lorina Stephens, Amanda Sun & A.C. Wise
introduction by Julie Czerneda

The Cave Beneath the Sea

by (author) Edward Willett

The Lake in the Clouds

by (author) Edward Willett

Song of the Sword

by (author) Edward Willett

Helix War

by (author) Edward Willett

Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw

by (author) Edward Willett