Edward Willett

Author, Editor, and Publisher

EDWARD WILLETT is the award-winning author (under his own name and as E.C. Blake and Lee Arthur Chane) of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction for readers of all ages, including twelve novels for DAW Books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Stars, a humorous far-future space-opera heist adventure featuring an AI-uplifted talking cat who becomes a starship captain. Ed won Canada’s top science fiction award, the Aurora Award, for his second novel for DAW, Marseguro, and has been shortlisted several times since, including for his most recent young adult science fiction novel, Star Song. Ed has also won an Aurora Award for his podcast, The Worldshapers, which gave rise to the Kickstarted Shapers of Worlds anthologies featuring guests of the podcast, many of them international bestsellers and award-winners. In 2018, Ed founded Shadowpaw Press, publisher of the Shapers of Worlds anthologies, among other new work (and new editions of notable, previously published work) by many authors in a variety of genres. In addition to writing, Ed is a professional actor and singer. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife. They have a grown daughter and a much younger black Siberian cat named, of course, Shadowpaw.