Author Archives: Patrick

Exit Interview” is now available online

Read my short story “Exit Inter­view” on Daily Sci­ence Fic­tion. Not only is it up on the site now, but it appears to be the “Fea­tured Story” on their site, too. Woo hoo!

They liked it

As they say, “That went well.”  The Face­book com­ments for my story “Exit Inter­view” were all very pos­i­tive. (Whew.) You can click the lit­tle wee screen­shot to see ‘em, if you want. On tap for tonight: Write Club. (Fol­lowed up, almost cer­tainly, by a farewell to a cou­ple of our writ­ers, who are going to Guelph* and

So far so good

Response to “Exit Inter­view” has so far been very pos­i­tive. I’m happy.

Íslendingadagurinn

The long week­end — in Viking country

Coming Soon

If you want to have my short story “Exit Inter­view” emailed direct to your inbox, you’ll need to sign up for Daily Sci­ence Fic­tion, and soon.  My story’s com­ing in early August. (If you don’t sign up, all is not lost; sto­ries show up on their site about a week later, and I will for

Fireworks

Happy belated Canada Day, and also happy Fourth to the Americans.

Thunderstorms

More like this

Keycon 28 (1)

This past week­end I went to Key­con 28,  the lat­est iter­a­tion of Winnipeg’s sci­ence fic­tion con­ven­tion.  I had been invited by Craig Rus­sell, and since I’d never been to a con, I fig­ured, Why not?

Congratulations to Craig Russell

Craig Rus­sell, local author, has been nom­i­nated for an Aurora Award for his novel Black Bot­tle Man (reviewed here). He’s in a cat­e­gory with Marie Bilodeau, Hay­den Tren­holm, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Robert J. Sawyer. Good com­pany, in short. Con­grat­u­la­tions, Craig, and best of luck!

New aerial photos of the flood

…over at the Bran­don Sun’s site.