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Join Rachel A. Rosen for the launch of Blight, the second book in her Sleep of Reason trilogy. Rachel will talk about how a fantasy featuring demons and sea monsters and wizards (oh my!) is relevant to life in 2025, speculative fiction as a terrain for resisting fascism, and writing about future events before they become historical events.

There will be a reading, conversation, and Q&A.

The event is free and open to the public. Glad Day serves a delicious selection of food and drink.

When: Thursday, July 3, 2025

When: 6:30-8:30 PM

Where: Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2C6 | Phone: (416) 901-6600

The BumblePuppy Press and Rachel Rosen gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers’ Union of Canada, and thank Glad Day Bookstore for hosting this event.

RSVP here!

Amazing news, Wizards & Spaceships fans! I am so excited to announce on the very same day as our season 1 finale that our little podcast has been nominated for an Aurora Award! You can read up on the Aurora Awards and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association here, and you can see the ballot with us on it (along with the many, many incredible nominees), here.

Thank you to all our listeners for an incredible first year! And if you’re not a listener yet, why not check us out on Wizards & Spaceships, or wherever you get your podcasts?

Season 1, Episode 12: Transhumanism and AI ft. Robert J. Sawyer

Happy one-year anniversary to us! We’re celebrating with what I think is our best episode yet: Robert J. Sawyer on AI and transhumanism.

It’s exciting enough to read that there’s going to be an adaptation of Blindsight (one of my favourite all-time books)—that alone would have made my day. But even more personally exciting is that one of my favourite authors took the time to name-drop me—in the same breath as China Miéville and Seth Dickinson, no less—in the interview.

Check it out!

Ever wonder how the sausage gets made? Zilla interviewed me about my upcoming new book, Cascade! It’s now available for pre-order.

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

New Wizards & Spaceships episode!

Season 1, Episode 11: TTRPG Design ft. Jesse Pohlman

Also, if you are eligible to vote in the Aurora Awards, please consider nominating us for Best Fan Related Work!

Pulp fiction is a cornerstone of the genres we love. In this episode, we talk to screenwriter, ghostwriter, and author of the new zombie novel Deads Rise, Shawn Whitney, about manly men doing manly things, the perils of writing romance, and close encounters with sexy lizard aliens.

Season 1, Episode 10: Toxic Schlock Syndrome, ft. Shawn Whitney

I’ll be doing an author talk about the Sad Bastard Cookbook at the Welland Public Library on March 22nd at 2 pm EST. Can’t make it to Welland? That’s okay—it’s a virtual event. Register at the link!