Free Stuff

I've made my first novel, Ventus, available as a free download, as well as excerpts from two of the Virga books. I am looking forward to putting up a number of short stories in the near future.

Complete novel: Ventus

To celebrate the August, 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as a free eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this free version.

I've released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.

Book Excerpts: Sun of Suns and Pirate Sun

I've made large tracts of these two Virga books available. If you want to find out what the Virga universe is all about, you can check it out here:

Short Stories

I'll be adding new stories here periodically. First of all, you can try my Aurora-award nominated short story "Hopscotch." The year this was nominated, another of my stories was also nominated: "The Toy Mill," which I wrote with David Nickle. "The Toy Mill" won the award; but I've always been fond of "Hopscotch." Here it is, in its entirety excerpted from my collection The Engine of Recall.

Hopscotch

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Jul 18, 2008

Sun of Suns audiobook is out

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The complete, unabridged text is available for download from Audible.com, and soon on iTunes

You can listen to the complete text of the novel, read by Joyce Irvine. This is the first of three rapid-fire releases coming from MacMillan audio--the next two books in the series, Queen of Candesce and Pirate Sun, should be made available within the next few weeks.

To get it, bounce on over to the page at Audible.com. And enjoy!

Jul 15, 2008

My Denvention Schedule

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I'll be at Worldcon in Denver. Drop in and see me!

Here's my schedule for the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, which happens August 6-10, in Denver Colorado. It's a pretty modest schedule, but when you realize that there's several hundred programming guests and only a limited set of slots--well, I don't know very many other midlist writers who have any more panels than this. In that sense, Worldcon is a victim of its own success; but I'm not complaining, because people will still be able to find me, and the Kaffeeklatsch and reading should be fun.

Swashbucklers in Space, Thur 17:30 (I'm moderating)
Canadian Science Fiction, Fri 10:00 (moderating this one too)

Kaffeeklatch Sat, 16:00

Reading: Thur 11:30

If you want to see me outside of this schedule, just email me and we can talk.

May 12, 2008

Reading at Beaches public library this tuesday

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May 14, starting at 7:00 p.m., Julie Czerneda and will be reading from current/upcoming works

...So come on out! I'm going to be reading from Pirate Sun, which will be released from Tor Books in August. The location is the beautiful and historic Beaches Library branch of the Toronto Public Libraries.