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Remembering a pillar of the Canadian speculative fiction community.

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#sf #sciencefiction #canadiansf #speculativefiction
Jean-Louis Trudel
Remembering a pillar of the Canadian speculative fiction community
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November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The traditional publishing industry is kinda nuts. My thoughts on how, and why, and what to do about it.

#traditionalpublishing #agents #publishing #writing

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The Publishing Industry is Kinda Nuts
And what to do about it
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November 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Two days away!
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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On this episode of Re-Creative, Mark and I talk to emergency physician and award-winning writer Melissa Yuan-Innes. We discuss balancing day jobs with the process of creating art, fringe festivals in Canada, and “reverse catfishing.”

#writing #theatre #fiction

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Melissa Yuan-Innes on A Grimm Night
Season 1 Episode 8 Originally presented May 10th 2023
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November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Join me tomorrow for the first ever Pages in the Province book fair!

11am to 5pm Sat Nov 8th at the Capital Exhibit Centre, 355 Smythe St, Fredericton.

A giant celebration of books, creativity, and community!

#books #bookfair #newbrunswick
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Donovan Street Press Inc. author Michael Antman on the podcast Heart of the Matter, talking about his recent release Cherry Whip: the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Always fun listening to (and reading) Michael Antman!

#podcast #books

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Episode 126: “Cherry Whip” with Michael Antman
For anyone that has tried to get anything published, we understand the pain. Finding that right fit for you and your book, article or artwork is not an easy business. That’s why we really app…
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November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Coming up soon in Shediac New Brunswick! Hey, it’s not that far from whereever you are. :-) Come to this Christmas book sale and find unique books by talented local authors and publishers that are every bit as good as you'll find anywhere!
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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On this episode of Re-Creative, Mark and I talk to author Robert Chazz Chute about his work, and one of his greatest influences, well-known author and screenwriter William Goldman’s The Color of Light.

#podcast #robertchazzchute #williamgoldman #novels

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Robert Chazz Chute on William Goldman’s The Color of Light
Season 1 Episode 8 Originally presented May 3rd 2023
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October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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If you're anywhere near Casper, Wyoming this coming Nov 7th and 8th you might want to check this out:

(Allow me to draw your attention to the "dramatized by" credit below the title The Cold Equations...)

Sure wish I could be there! Alas...

#sciencefiction #tomgodwin #theatre #sf
October 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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One day it will be possible to use a kitchen implement to remove a substance from another kitchen implement without then having to remove the substance from the first kitchen implement & then having to remove it from the second kitchen implement once again over and over again until the end of time.
October 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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As a big fan of Monty Python, I got a tremendous kick out of Eric Idle publicly accusing me and my colleagues of being “freeloading bastards.”

#ericidle #montypython #humor

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That Time Eric Idle Did the Credits for CBC Radio's Q
From the Vaults
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October 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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In this episode of Re-Creative Mark and I talk to Mike McCormick: wit and a musician, songwriter and metallurgist, performer and sports fan, and one of the founding members of the Arrogant Worms, Canada’s premier musical comedy trio.

#podcast #music
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Re-Creative: Mike McCormick and Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”
Season 1 Episode 6 Originally presented April 19th 2023
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October 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The train was late. Forty-five minutes late. Waiting for it, standing in the freezing rain, it occurred to me that I really had to pee.

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A Capital Pee
Another Go Train Story From the Vaults...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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In this episode of our podcast Re-Creative, Mark A. Rayner and I have a wide-ranging and mind-bending conversation with author and editor Ira Nayman about the multiverse, theories of time travel, the nature of satire, and, of course, cannibalism.

#podcast

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Re-Creative: Ira Nayman and O Lucky Man!
Season 1 Episode 6 Originally presented April 19th 2023
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October 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Yes, believe it or not it's that time of year already! I will be there! Hope you will too.

#christmasmarket #books
October 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Time to dust off the trailer for Matt Watts' Hope of the Wasteland!
If you haven't read this "absorbing and electrifying dystopian tale" (Kirkus Reviews) then what are you waiting for? An apocalypse?
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#books
Hope Of the Wasteland Book Trailer
YouTube video by Joe Mahoney
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October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Cape Breton speculative fiction writer Sherry Ramsey joins Mark A. Rayner and me to talk about her work and a painting called The Traveler by an unknown artist that has long inspired her. Episode 5 of our podcast Re-Creative.

#paintings

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Re-Creative: Sherry Ramsey and The Traveler
Season 1 Episode 5 Originally presented April 12 2023
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October 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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At the Moncton Centennial Park CIBC Run for the Cure today.
October 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Remembering my colleague Gregory J. Sinclair on what would have been his birthday, pictured here second from right in our old CBC Radio Drama studio 212. Like too many others, he left us way too young.
October 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Marie-Josée Doucette, impersonating the captain of the Beausoleil, has failed in her mission to convince the T’Klee admiral Steelclaw to hand over its fleet.

Now she must face the consequences.

Chapter 43 of Captain’s Away!

#spaceopera

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Captain's Away! Chapter Forty-Three
"Special Order Twenty-One"
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September 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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When Wildebear’s nephew is kidnapped to help fight a war halfway across the galaxy, Wildebear rolls up his sleeves & sets out to rescue the boy.

But who knew there’d be time travelling, shape changing, & battling an evil Necronian named Jacques?

#indiebook #SF

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A Time and a Place ebook by Joe Mahoney - Rakuten Kobo
Read "A Time and a Place" by Joe Mahoney available from Rakuten Kobo. **“ENTERTAINING, CHAOTIC ADVENTURE.” ~ Publishers Weekly. An unlikely hero travels to other worlds and times to save a b...
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September 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Don't feel bad. I didn't either.
September 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The latest crazy marketing scams, book clubs, The Druid and the Dragon, The Cold Equations Stage Adaptation, our latest release Cherry Whip and... okay, that's about it. But surely that’s enough, isn’t it?

#newsletter #marketing #books #radioplay

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Marketing Scams, Book Clubs, The Cold Equations, and More...
Marketing Scams, Book Clubs, The Druid and the Dragon, The Cold Equations, Cherry Whip and... okay, that's about it
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September 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Need I say more?
September 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Episode 48 of Re-Creative in which Mark and I talk to author and critic Michael Antman on the occasion of Donovan Street Press having just published a special Twentieth Anniversary Edition of his terrific novel Cherry Whip.

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#podcast
Re-Creative: Michael Antman and René Magritte
From Season 3, Episode 48
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September 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM