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Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than 60 books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for children, young adults, and adults. Born in Silver City, New Mexico, he moved to Saskatchewan from Texas as a child, and grew up in Weyburn, where he began his career as a newspaper reporter/photographer, and eventually editor, of the Weyburn Review. Ed's latest novel is The Cityborn, his eighth from DAW Books in New York. Recent young adult books include fantasy Flames of Nevyana from Winnipeg's Rebelight Books and the five-book, Saskatchewan-based Shards of Excalibur YA fantasy series for Coteau Books (Song of the Sword, Twist of the Blade, Lake in the Clouds, Cave Beneath the Sea, and Door into Faerie. His previous novels for DAW Books include the fantasy trilogy The Masks of Agyrima, written as E.C. Blake, and ; the epic steampunkish fantasy Magebane, written as Lee Arthur Chane; and three adult science fiction novels, Lost in Translation, Marseguro (winner of the Aurora Award for best Canadian science fiction novel in 2009) and Terra Insegura, shortlisted for the same award in 2010. For Ottawa's Bundoran Press, he's written a science fiction duology, Peregrine Rising: Right to Know and its sequel, Falcon's Egg. Ed's YA fantasy Spirit Singer, which won the Regina Book Award at the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Awards, was recently re-issued by Tyche Books. Ed's next book will be Worldshaper, start of a new series for DAW Books. Ed's nonfiction includes biographies of famous people like Andy Warhol and Johnny Cash, local history books (of Government House, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Sasaktchewan, the Saskatchewan Mining Assocation, and the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association, for example), and science and computer books. Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw (Red Deer Press) won a City of Regina Municipal Heritage Award. He's edited Windscript, the magazine of Saskatchewan teen writing, three times, as well as Grain Magazine and Spring Magazine; served as writer-in-residence at the Regina Public Library; taught the Sage Hill Teen Writing Experience three times, and taught classes in writing. He's also a professional actor and singer. He lives in Regina with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P.Eng, teenaged daughter, Alice, and black Siberian cat, Shadowpaw.
Shadowpaw Press, 2020,
DAW Books, 2020,
DAW Books, 2019,
Shadowpaw Press, 2019,
Focus Publications, 2018,
J.D. Mollard and Associates, 2018,
Your Nickel's Worth Publishing, 2018,
Shadowpaw Press, 2018,
Saskatchewan Mining Association, 2018,
DAW Books, 2018,
Saskatchewan Mining Association, 2017,
Essential Library, 2017,
Rosen Publishing Group, 2016,
Coteau Books, 2016,
DAW Books, 2016,
Coteau Books, 2015,
DAW Books, 2015,
Bundoran Press, 2015,
Enslow Publishers, 2015,
Rosen Young Adult, 2015,
Coteau Books, 2015,
Enslow Publishers, 2015,
Rosen Publishing Group, 2014,
DAW Books, 2014,
Coteau Books, 2014,
Coteau Books, 2014,
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2014,
Enslow Publishers, 2013,
DAW Books, 2013,
Bundoran Press, 2013,
Enslow Publishers, 2010,
Enslow Publishers, 2010,
Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association, 2010,
DAW Books, 2010,
Enslow Publishers, 2009,
DAW Books, 2009,
Enslow Publishers, 2009,
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of Saskatchewan, 2008,
Rosen Publishing, 2008,
Red Deer Press, 2008,
Rosen Publishing, 2008,
Enslow Publishers, 2008,
DAW Books, 2008,
Rosen Publishing, 2007,
Rosen Publishing, 2007,
Rosen Publishing, 2007,
Rosen Publishing, 2006,
Enslow Publishers, 2006,
DAW Books, 2006,
Enslow Publishers, 2006,
McGraw-Hill, 2005,
Enslow Publishers, 2004,
Rosen Publishing, 2004,
Rosen Publishing, 2004,
Rosen Publishing, 2003,
Enslow Publishers, 2003,
Rosen Publishing, 2003,
Rosen Publishing, 2003,
Enslow Publishers, 2002,
Wiley, 2002,
Rosen Publishers, 2001,
Enslow Publishers, 2001,
Awe-Struck, 2001,
Enslow Publishers, 2000,
Wiley, 2000,
Roussan Publishers, 1999,
America Online, 1999,
Raintree/Steck Vaughan, 1999,
Enslow Publishers, 1999,
Hungry Minds, 1998,
Royal Fireworks Press, 1998,
Royal Fireworks Press, 1997,
QUE, 1997,
QUE, 1995,
FIVE STARS – “Great podcast! Incredible resource for writers and readers alike. Interesting and inspiring conversations about the science fiction and fantasy genres, the writing process and creative acts. My to-read list grows with every interview. Please keep going!” – E.L. Thomas, iTunes Store
All writers, when they set pen to paper or post pixel to page, are shaping a world: their own private world, created from their own thoughts and imagination, joys and sorrows, hopes and heartbreaks, triumphs and fears. It may mimic the real world, or it may be as different from the real world as, say, the world of Middle Earth is from the world of Blade Runner, but it is still a shaped world–a sub-creation, to use J.R.R. Tolkien’s formulation. It is not a real world, it does not have the depth or complexity of a real world, it is but an illusion…and yet, these fictional worlds, these illusions, though shaped by humans, not gods, can sometimes touch our minds and expand our spirits in ways nothing else can.
It is a kind of miracle, and very writer performs it in his or her own way. In The Worldshapers, Edward Willett, himself an award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy, delves into the creative process with science fiction and fantasy writers of every kind, seeking to better understand this magical, mystical skill…the skill of worldshaping.
