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Aurora Awards 2025 – Voting Opens! (+ All the Broken Blades Book Launch)

June 10, 2025

Voting for the Aurora Awards for Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy opened June 7, 2025. As you may (or may not) have heard, I have not one but two works on the shortlist:

Both these pieces are available to read online for free (just follow the links above).

If you are a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant: it’s not too late to grab your membership. Cost is just $10, and grants you access to a voters’ package containing all the nominated works—including five novels in the Best Novel category (don’t miss out this chance to read Pale Grey Dot by my colleague and friend Don Miasek—a truly excellent science fiction novel that blends classic starship fights with surprising character complexity).

Full Aurora Award dates:

  • June 7 – Aurora Awards voting opens
  • July 12 – Membership payments close, voters’ package download closes
  • July 19 – Aurora Awards voting closes
  • August 9 – Aurora Awards ceremony (online)

It’s a huge honour to be able to call myself a four-time Aurora Award finalist. Whether I win or not, I’m glad that these awards exist to bring awareness to Canadian science fiction and fantasy. And hey, four-time Aurora Award loser at least sounds hilarious, and I don’t let anything get in the way of a good laugh.

All the Broken Blades – Book Launch

The book launch for All the Broken Blades occurred on June 8, 2025 at the Imperial Pub. I had a full house (yay!), a wonderful host in Peter G. Reynolds, give-aways, a special oral storytelling version of “Glass Gardens,” and a trivia session where people fought over broken and unbroken swords.

If you’ve had a chance to read All the Broken Blades: an honest review on Goodreads, Amazon, Indigo, and/or your platform of choice would be appreciated!

ALL THE BROKEN BLADES: Successful end to Kickstarter & next steps

December 2, 2024

On November 30, 2024, the Kickstarter campaign for All the Broken Blades (my debut short story collection) came to a successful conclusion with $2,176 (Canadian) raised, 155% of the initial funding goal. Words cannot express how ecstatic and thankful I am for all the support.

Special thanks to the following people:

  • Don Miasek and Justin Dill, for their tireless work in helping me promote this campaign
  • Julia Wang and Tao Wong, for lending their real life weaponry to the cause (swords for the promotional photo shoots)

And thank you to… every single one of you, my backers! This project could not be what it is without you.

Book Production and Next Steps

Project status:

  • I have already started reaching out to artists regarding cover illustration and design.
  • The stories have been compiled into a document for line-editing and proofreading.
  • Origami paper is stocked and ready for the production of origami cranes.

Now, for the complicated part: the campaign fell just shy of the audiobook stretch goal. However, I am still looking into options for audiobook production, through different ways of allocating funds, finding recording space, utilizing any late pledges that come in, and committing some of my own money. I cannot promise the audiobook is happening, but it’s not off the table. Stay tuned.

Late Pledges

For anyone who missed the campaign but would still like to support the creation of this book: late pledges are open for most reward tiers. They will remain open until I begin finalizing the book layout (at which point I will not be able to add further names to the acknowledgements, and therefore, will be closing to further pledges).

For those deciding between a late pledge and buying the book after release—the following rewards are only easily obtained from the Kickstarter campaign, and will not be available if you purchase the book later (unless you encounter me in-person at a book launch, convention, workshop, or critique group):

  • Book signed and personalized with a unique drawing
  • Bookmark featuring the cover art
  • Postcards featuring the promotional photos used in the campaign
  • Origami crane folded by me
  • Book bundled with two short fiction magazines (1 bundle left)