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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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A Pale Grey Podcast with Michael Elves of Turning Pages

The Turning Pages UMFM 101.5 logo beside the cover to Pale Grey Dot, which features a planet and moon. The moon forms the 'o' in 'Dot'.

Quick note to say I had a super time being interviewed by Michael Elves on the 101.5 UMFM Turning Pages Podcast about all things Pale and Grey: https://umfm.com/programming/broadcast/turning-pages-june-4-2025 Per the synopsis: “While [Don] has been part of the Cana­di­an sci­ence-fic­tion writ­ing com­mu­ni­ty for years, Pale Grey Dot is Toron­ton­ian Don Miasek’s debut nov­el. He dis­cuss­es the deci­sions behind the future he has craft­ed, how telling the sto­ry from mul­ti­ple view­points has both ben­e­fits and com­pli­ca­tions, as well as more behind the writ­ing & plot­ting of the book.”

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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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After Action Report – Indigo Signing in Barrie

Don's signing at Indigo Barrie, showing a desk full of books. This is the Before Image.

An after action report of my November 30th signing at Indigo Barrie.

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Pale Grey Signing at Can*Con 2024 – Nov 3rd, Ottawa

Screenshot of the Can*Con schedule, with a bunch of arrows pointing to the signing timeslot.

In a quick bit of news, I’ve been tagged to do signings at Can*Con this year in Ottawa alongside Mona Storm.
– 10 AM, Sunday, November 3rd
– Sheraton Hotel, Ottawa

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Pale Grey Dot gets the nod from the September issue of the Toronto Sci-Fi & Fantasy Newsletter

Major upcoming events:
– Toronto SFF Newsletter: Now!
– SeanGeek & FastFreak Podcast Interview: Releasing July 8th
– Book Launch: Vore Tech by A.R. St.Pierre: July 16th
– Book Launch: The Civilization, by K.M. Mckenzie: October 11th
– Barrie Indigo Book Signing: November 30th

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