Category: News
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“Nature, Human” is Out!!
My latest collection of short stories, Nature, Human has just been released by Toronto publishers, House of Zolo. A long time coming!! I’ve been working ont hese stories for a long time, and have also created a special edition ILLUSTRATED version of the book that was an adventure in itself. Thanks to everyone at House…
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Storytelling From VR
I’m in the thick of the creation process for my latest project, Storytelling From VR–a series of media pieces and online events that feature my fiction writing. I’ve merged two elements of my work life–writing fiction and Virtual Reality–to create this multi-layered project. I’ve been working in multiple VR spaces at once–Second Life, NEOS VR,…
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Phreak Wins Book of the Year
Phreak, my first novel, has just won the Write Project’s Book of the Year 2020. This is especially exciting because this award was based on votes by readers, and I so appreciate the support. Thanks to Matthew Ledrew and the Write Project for all their work and attention. You can get your own copy of…
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Edge: Three Short Stories
Here’s Edge: Three Short Stories, my first solo book release! After the launch of my debut novel, Phreak (House of Zolo, 2020), I’ve been working on creating writing that is super short and accessible. I continue to learn from the great writers and editors around me, and lately have been exploring ways to get right…
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Exhibit of The Songstress
I’ll be demonstrating my NPC environment on Thursday, December 23 from 6 to 8 PM EST. When I say “NPC Environment” I mean that the whole space is the Non-Player Character, so the space itself is the “consciousness”, (not just a standalone character). The Songstress creates original poetry using quantum computers, machine learning, and magic!…
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My Quantum Virtual Poet Was Born This Week
Over the last many months I’ve been working with teams of programmers to create another unique virtual artist (See Whale Watching in VR for documentation of my first virtual artist beings). This time I have created a virtual Poet NPC (Non-Player Character) inside of NEOS VR who think using a combination of technologies, including a…
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All My Lyrics (almost)
As part of an experiment, I have posted a large majority of my lyrics here. I will continue to add to the page, as I uncover and recall more lyrics. THE GODDESS i believe i believe i am the Goddess i believe I believe i am i am standing on my ever-turning planet i am…
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Lizband Discography
The entire Lizband discography is now being offered at a special price of $26 CND – only on Bandcamp. This digital download includes Six Songs, 1994; i’ve been here before. 1998; Devotion, 2002; and Lizband, 2006. These are all highly celebrated, award nominated releases by the mighty and prophetic Lizband and they are only available…
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Phreak
The soft launch of Phreak happened in April 2020 with the digital release of the book (E-PUB, Kindle, PDF) from the House of Zolo. The print release is coming in July 2020. Announcement will be made shortly. In an alternate, near-future world where corrupt government and corporate interests rule the smallest details of Island life,…
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IOTA e-Publication
the wide sky is a web art piece commissioned by the IOTA Institute and launched.last fall. In a post-apocalyptic world a digital archeologist avatar attempts to dig up memories from a past time. https://www.iotainstitute.com/thewidesky IOTA are ending the year with an e-pub release on webart – essays by writers Johanna Drucker, Adrienne Crossman and Isabelle…
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“Phreak” on the Fresh Fish shortlist
Wow. The manuscript for my first novel, Phreak, has been shortlisted for The Writer’s Alliance of NL’s Fresh Fish Award. I share this honour with Terry Doyle, for his short story collection We All Do and Matthew Hollett for his poetry collection, Optic Nerve. The jurors – Bridget Canning, Trudy Morgan-Cole, and Paul Rowe –…
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The Sauce EP
The Sauce released our EP last month to much critical acclaim – especially from Bobs! Here is a link to the place where you can download the recording The Sauce Recording. this recording was a co-production of The Black Bag Media Collective and Baygirl Music. You can order hard copies online via Fred’s Records. “The…
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