Hello Readers!
This weekend (Starting today!) is the wonderful Can-Con: Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature.
Jen and I will be in the vendors room (FREE to the public!) most of the time, selling awesome coffee, crochet, and books.
Hope to see you there!
Éric
Hello Friends, Family, and Fans;
The Travelling TARDIS is nominated for the Aurora Awards.
The Voter’s Package is available for download! Make sure you’re logged in, and then go get your books.
Voting started June 8 and runs until July 13. Please consider The Travelling TARDIS, nominated in the Fan Writing and Publication category. Thank you to all who nominated us!
Happy reading!!!
The Aurora Awards are awards “for excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy works and activities.” They are administered by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.
It’s a fan-voted award with awesome people.
Sign up, get ebooks, read, and then vote for your favourites. It’s a great deal and you’ll love the books.
So go to https://www.csffa.ca/ and click on the “Become a Member” button.
Stay safe and be kind,
Éric
Hello Friends, Family, and Fans;
As we’ve mentioned The Travelling TARDIS is nominated for the Aurora Awards.
Now the Voter’s Package is available for download! Make sure you’re logged in, and then go get your books.
Voting starts on June 8 and runs until July 13. Please consider The Travelling TARDIS, nominated in the Fan Writing and Publication category. Thank you to all who nominated us!
Happy reading!!!
The Aurora Awards are awards “for excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy works and activities.” They are administered by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.
It’s a fan-voted award with awesome people.
Sign up, get ebooks, read, and then vote for your favourites. It’s a great deal and you’ll love the books.
So go to https://www.csffa.ca/ and click on the “Become a Member” button.
Stay safe and be kind,
Éric
Hello friends, family, and fans!
I’m so proud of Jen, this is her 7th nomination in seven years. It’s the TARDIS’s sixth.
Thanks to all who nominated. You really made a difference.
Now, it’s onto the voting! You will receive an email on how to download the voters package sometime in mid-May. If not, check the website when you’re logged in, and follow the instructions.
The Travelling TARDIS isn’t part of the package because you can access it for free on this site.
If you think The Travelling TARDIS is worthy of your vote, voting for the Auroras will be open on June 8th.
Thank you to everyone who nominated and especially to everyone who reads and enjoys our content.
Thank you!
Éric
Hello My Imaginary Friends,
I’ve talked about the Aurora Awards before.
Now all the nominating is over and it’s time for people to read the nominees and vote for their favourite.
Here’s a list of the nominated works
If you sign up for the Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association and pay $10, you’ll have access to most of the nominated works. That’s 10+ novels, collections, short stories, and more. The voters package will be available until voting closes on July 23rd.
The Aurora Awards are awards “for excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy works and activities.” They are administered by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.
It’s a fan-voted award in the vein of the Hugo’s, but with way more awesome people.
Sign up, get ebooks, read, and then vote for your favourites. It’s a great deal and you’ll love the books.
So go to https://prixaurorawards.ca/ and click on the “Become a Member” button.
Stay safe and be kind,
Éric
Hello My Imaginary Friends,
As you know, The Travelling TARDIS has been nominated for an Aurora Award. (4th year in a row)
Voting for the Aurora’s is now open and will close on Saturday, September 4, 2021. Please vote for the Travelling TARDIS.
The majority of nominated works are available in the voter’s package now. Simply make an account, pay $10, and you’ll have access to a wonderful library of Canadian Science fiction and fantasy.
The Travelling TARDIS isn’t part of the package because you can access it for free on this site.
The Travelling TARDIS moves, with the power of timey-yarney crochet, through time and space visiting and taking pictures with cosplayers, landmarks, celebrities, and cute babies.
Thank you to everyone who nominated and especially to everyone who reads and enjoys our content.
Thank you!
Éric
Hello My Imaginary Friends,
Please consider voting for The Travelling TARDIS in this years Aurora Awards. Voting ends tomorrow at midnight.
I’d also like to suggest you vote for Nothing Without Us for best related work and Nathan Caro Fréchette for Best Artist (Nathan is nominated for covers done in 2019 including Everdome.)
The majority of nominated works are available in the voter’s package now. Simply make an account, pay $10, and you’ll have access to a wonderful library of Canadian Science fiction and fantasy.
The Travelling TARDIS isn’t part of the package because you can access it for free on this site but Nothing Without Us is available.
The Travelling TARDIS moves, with the power of timey-yarney crochet, through time and space visiting and taking pictures with cosplayers, landmarks, celebrities, and cute babies.
Thank you,
Éric
Hello My Imaginary Friends,
So proud of my wonderful wife and the Travelling TARDIS Blog for their THIRD nomination!
The majority of nominated works are available in the voter’s package now. Simply make an account, pay $10, and you’ll have access to a wonderful library of Canadian Science fiction and fantasy.
The Travelling TARDIS isn’t part of the package because you can access it for free on this site.
The Travelling TARDIS moves, with the power of timey-yarney crochet, through time and space visiting and taking pictures with cosplayers, landmarks, celebrities, and cute babies.
If you think The Travelling TARDIS is worthy of your vote, voting for the Auroras will be open on June 20th.
Thank you to everyone who nominated and especially to everyone who reads and enjoys our content.
Thank you!
Éric
Hello My Imaginary Friends,
This past weekend the entire JenEric family went to one of our favourite conventions; Can*Con. The people were lovely and the event was wonderful, but boy am I glad it’s over.
It’s definitely the most stressful convention for me. Most conventions, my job is to stand there, look pretty, and sell coffee. At Can*Con, I’m also an author and need to talk about my books and my experience. Often times, with people I respect and am in awe of.
This year I had a panel about multiple point of view narratives with Tanya Huff and Kevin Hearn. Both amazing writers and extremely intelligent panelists. I think, to my surprise, I didn’t come off as a complete fool, so yay. (A personal fanboy moment was when Tanya chided me for not mentioning my Aurora nomination.)
Took a deep dive into multiple POVs at the Who’s your Hero Panel today. Thanks for the insights @KevinHearne @TanyaHuff @EricDesmarais @KVJohansen @CanConSF pic.twitter.com/VCuOcol326
— Colleen Winter (@ColleenWinter3) October 20, 2019
I also had a signing with Charles De Lint. I spent half the time chatting with people in line to talk with him and half the time chatting with him. He’s a really nice person and we chatted about book formatting and support structures.
Now all that was stressful but awesome. Unfortunately, all 4 of us came down with a cold just before the convention. So doing a convention with a 3 year old and a baby while being sick was… exhausting.
Despite all of us being exhausted, we decided we needed to go to the Aurora awards banquet (we were both nominated but didn’t expect to win). Dragon wanted to dress up and we were just too darn tired so we didn’t. We were the schlumps in t-shirts and jeans but we had a great time.
On the Sunday I had a reading and took Dragon to ensure I had an audience. To my surprise, there were three other people. At least one of which was there to hear me read. Yay, I have a fan! Thanks S!
Doing conventions with kids is hard but totally worth it. Pegasus mostly slept, but Dragon was as good as possible. She listened, didn’t touch things, and only melted down a few times. I’m really proud of them.
Doing conventions with kids isn’t easy, but what makes it infinitely better is doing it with people who love them and like to entertain them. S. M. Carrière being the godmother spends a lot of time helping us at almost every con. Nathan of Renaissance was amazing despite being busy 99% of the con. Heather Chambers was absolutely fantastic with Dragon. She drew with her, played, and spent lots of time laughing.
There are more people that helped then I can name.
To everyone who helped, chatted, bought something, listened to me read or rant, or just made this convention amazing. Thank you so much!
I’m exhausted but happy.
Thank you again,
Éric
Hello Again,
This Saturday is the last day to put in your votes for the Aurora awards. If you’ve been meaning to, please go and vote before it’s too late.
Go to https://prixaurorawards.ca/ and click on the “Become a Member” button. Once you’ve paid you’ll be able to vote. Don’t forget to download your voters package.
Please consider both The Sign of Faust and The Travelling TARDIS in your votes.
Elizabeth Coderre solves mysteries. Magic, wizards, and killer kittens didn’t stop her last semester. Now someone is trying to kill her in absurdly complicated ways, she’s hearing voices, her best friends are constantly fighting despite being madly in love, and the desires of Baker City’s residents are becoming reality. Can she find out who’s trying to kill her and discover the source of everyone’s luck, while navigating dating, concerts, school, and competing in the science Olympics? She can only wish… and you know what they say about wishes!
The Travelling TARDIS moves, with the power of timey-yarney crochet, through time and space visiting and taking pictures with cosplayers, landmarks, celebrities, and cute babies.
This will be my last reminder.
Hope you’ve read and enjoyed the books from this year’s package.
Thank you,
Éric
