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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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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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A Pale Grey Anniversary – Year in Review

The crowd at Bakka-Phoenix.

On May 5th, 2024, the Aurora Award nominated Pale Grey Dot was released into the wilds, so I thought we’d take a quick glance at the year of successes.

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Pale Grey Dot nominated for an Aurora Award

Screenshot of the CSFFA website.

I’m happy to report that Pale Grey Dot has been nominated for an Aurora Award in the category of Best Novel! This annual award handed out by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) for English-language Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards. Needless to say, this is a great honour, and my thanks go out to my editors (Adria Laycraft and Melissa Morrow), Jamis Paulson and Sharon Caseburg from Ravenstone Press, and my critique group from the Toronto Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers. All of them helped to make PGD the best it could be!

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A Pale Grey Writing Retreat – 2025

The 2025 Writers Retreat, showcasing a ton of authors from the Toronto area.

March 7th to 10th was the retreat of one Aurora Award winning author, Peter G. Reynolds, up in the Blue Mountains of Ontario, attended to by twelve incredible authors, all allegedly working on their individual projects. As for me? I was wrote REDACTED, which I can’t wait to share with you later in the year.

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