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When Pale Grey Words Collide: Aug 14 to 16 in Calgary

The banner for When Words Collide, featuring the dates (Aug 14 to 16, 2026) and location (Hyatt Regency, Downtown Calgary)

I will be on three panels in Calgary’s When Words Collide festival, from August 14 to 16 this year. Read on to learn more!

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Book Signing: Toronto’s Indigo The Well

The sign at Indigo announcing the arrival of Toronto Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers.

Check out all the pics as the Toronto Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers invade Indigo The Well! We had a fantastic (and sci-fistic) time chatting with brand new readers.

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Can*Con 2025 – A Pale Grey Retrospective

James Downe, Amelinda Bérubé, Don Miasek, and Jen Desmarais.

Toronto invades Ottawa!

A retrospective on Can*Con 2025. Panels! Book sales! Gaming! More!

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Can*Con 2025 – Appearing on a Pair of Pale Grey Panels

The Can*Con logo.

Pale Grey Dot was a big hit at Word on the Street–Toronto’s biggest literary festival. Read on for a recap and retrospective.

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A Pale Grey Recap – Word on the Street, 2025

Word on the Street, 2025! Dave T.E. Foster, Jesse McMinn, Brandon Butler, Y.M. Pang, James Downe, P.G. Reynolds, Don Miasek, Danny F. Santos, and Kevin Coleman.

Pale Grey Dot was a big hit at Word on the Street–Toronto’s biggest literary festival. Read on for a recap and retrospective.

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Pale Grey Dot will appear at Word on the Street – Sep 27-28

A map of Word on the Street, with the location of our booth circled.

Pale Grey Dot will appear at Word on the Street, Canada’s largest literary festival:

Saturday, September 27 – 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, September 28 – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Location: David Pecaut Square, Toronto

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An Interview with: Gillian Secord and her No-Bullshit Guide to Writing

Gillian Secord, two-time finalist for the Aurora Awards.

Today we have Gillian Secord, author of the Aurora Award finalist short story: BUDDY RAYMOND’S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING.

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An interview with A World of Milk and R H Wesley

An image of Rob Wesley, the author of A World of Milk and Promises. He's looking back over his shoulder while hunched over an olde timey book with an olde timey quill in an olde timey writing salon.

Today we check out R H Wesley, author of the Aurora Award Finalist short story, “A World of Milk and Promises.”

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Part 2: An Interview with: Y.M. Pang, Wielder of the Aurora Award Finalist Nominations

The logo for Y.M. Pang's poem: Cthulhu on the Shores of Osaka.

In a first for this site, we are doing a Part 2 interview! The occasion? Y.M. Pang being named as a finalist in two more Aurora Awards.

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Book Launch: All the Broken Blades, by Y.M. Pang

Don and Y.M. Pang herself.

Guess who attended the book launch of Y.M. Pang‘s anthology of dark fantasy short stories, All the Broken Blades, last Sunday. This guy!

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