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Welcome to my website. I write science fiction, fantasy, and mainstream fiction.
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My first novel,
Burning Stones,
is now available through independent bookstores and online at Amazon,
Chapters/Indigo, and Barnes and Noble.
To buy autographed or
personalized copies, click here. To find out
more about
Burning Stones, click
here .
Publishers Weekly says: "In contrast to Hollywood's fondness for dramatizing the effects of catastrophe on major cities, first-time novelist Mills examines the ways that small-town inhabitants ... deal with a trio of worldwide disasters. This grim near-future tale showcases the best and worst of humanity...." |
| News |
| 03 April |
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The Engine's Child,
Holly Phillips' new fantasy novel, will be published by Del Rey in October
2008.
Holly has her website up and running. Check it out at www.hollyphillips.com.
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| 14 January 2008 |
I'll be attending the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, 29-31 October 2008.
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| 02 June 2007 |
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Along with his Hugo
nomination, Peter Watts has been nominated for a John
W. Campbell Award. for his novel, Blindsight. Oh, and let's add
a Sunburst Award
nomination, as well! Find out more about Watts and his books at www.rifters.com.
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| 30 May 2007 |
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Congratulations to the Paramedic Academy's Class of April 2007 (Okanagan Campus)! More photos of their classroom adventures can be found at this student's website, www.erikkiss.com. For information on the Justice Institute of BC's Primary Care Paramedic program, go here. |
| 03 May 2007 |
I have added a few new reviews and blurbs on my Reviews page, with more to come. |
| 14 April 2007 |
SF Canada's website guru, Ed Willett, migrated the SF Canada news blog to New Blogger, and given it a new URL: you can now reach it more simply by going to http://news.sfcanada.ca. |
| 06 April 2007 |
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I sold my short story, "If Giants Are Thunder," to the Canadian anthology, Tesseracts 11, edited by Holly Phillips and Cory Doctorow, and published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. |
| 01 April 2007 |
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Peter Watts' novel, Blindsight,
has been nominated for a Hugo! If you haven't read Blindsight yet, you might want to pick up a copy. No one writes like Watts. Find out more about Watts and his books at www.rifters.com.
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| 30 March 2007 |
| The Magazine Cabaret
I have been invited to read during BC Book & Magazine Week at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna on 25 April at 7 pm. The Rotary Centre for the Arts is located at 421 Cawston Avenue, Kelowna. For a map, click here. Other Cabarets will be hosted simultaneously in Vancouver, Victoria, and Prince George. Come on out and enjoy the festivities! |
| 29 March 2007 |
| Off the Page
Off the Page is a program sponsored by the Federation of BC Writers to expose BC students to local writers and their writing. On 24 April, as a delegate of Off the Page, I will be talking to Mr. Mrak's Grade 11 English students at George Elliot Secondary School in Winfield, BC. |
| 24 February 2007 |
| More wrestling news: my nephew, Darian Johnson, placed fourth at the Provincial Championships in Surrey, BC, Feb 22-24, and qualified for the National Championships coming up in Whitby, Ontario, April 13-15. |
| 11 February 2007 |
| My nephew, Darian Johnson, just won a Gold Medal in wrestling (66 kg) at the Northern BC Winter Games, and qualified for the Provincial Championships coming up in Surrey, Feb 22-24. Last summer he won a Silver Medal at the BC Summer Games. Congratulations, Darian! |
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| 21 November 2006 |
| I received an email yesterday informing me that a great review of Burning Stones had been posted on Amazon last week. Go here to read this review. |
| 02 November 2006 |
| I was invited to speak to Mr. Brochu's Grade 11 English class at George Elliot Secondary School in Winfield, BC. The students had been assigned to write a short story on Survival. I spent an hour with them talking about the some of the difficulties they were experiencing writing their stories: how to start, writer's block, how to end, how to fill up the middle, and, of course, theme. I had a great time, and Mr. Brochu has invited me back next semester. |
| 26 September 2006 |
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Holly Phillips wins the 2006 Sunburst Award, Canada's juried SF/F award, for her short story collection, In the Palace of Repose. Also, Holly has been nominated for two World Fantasy Awards. Congratulations, Holly! |  |
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A Novel by Steven Mills In a world already desolated by an avian influenza, paramedic Alex Gauthier's 21-year-old daughter, Gemma, afflicted by the so-called Lucy virus, is devolving, turning into a proto human, while forest fires besiege the valley where they live. When Gemma asks Alex to kill her--perform a mercy killing--when she is no longer human, he finds himself making a promise he doesn't want to keep. At the other end of the valley, Veronica "Ronnie" Sapriken, the only remaining RCMP officer, is struggling to keep the peace in a disintegrating town while the rest of the world is falling apart, only to discover that someone has been trafficking in devolving kids. Locked away in a FEMA camp outside Spokane, Sage Van Peldt, whose husband and children were among the first to be infected with the strange virus, plans escape back to the valley of her childhood, not knowing whether she will survive the trip, or what she will find once she gets there. Burning Stones is the harrowing story of devolution, and of making choices no one wants to have to make. For a preview, click here to read the first four Chapters. To order copies of Burning Stones, go here. |