Caitlin's First Commissioned Story

Caitlin’s first commissioned short story, “To Play the Game of Men,” will appear in Ages of Wonder, an anthology to be published by Penguin U.S. in late March, 2009.

Caitlin at GenreCon

Caitlin will be spending the day in Sarnia, Ontario on Saturday, May 12 for GenreCon, the local library's annual convention. Robert J. Sawyer will be the guest of honour, and there will be many other panelists whose work runs the gamut from sci-fi to fantasy to horror to mystery to romance. Go to GenreCon website

Telling and Silences to be released in German

A Telling of Stars and The Silences of Home are both going to be released in German. The rights to both novels were sold to Kerstin von Dobschuetz at Goldmann / Random House. Silences will be published first. Stay tuned for further details.

Another year, another Ad Astra, another sparkly Sunburst Award auction...

And I do mean sparkly.

For the second year in a row, Lesley Livingston and I sacrificed decorum for art. This year we were joined by author and Prize Girl Adrienne Kress. We were all perilously underfed, but managed to stay on our tippy heels for the duration of the auction. After that we changed into more reasonable attire and repaired to the bar, where we ate (finally) and chatted with other authors, and editors, and friends we only see once a year.



It ended up being a very late night for most of us. I had a fairly early panel the following morning, and nearly decided to give it a pass - but I'm very glad I didn't. A bracing discussion about what, if anything, has happened to high fantasy is apparently the perfect way to end a con.

The next Big Event will be World Fantasy in Saratoga, NY, this fall. Here's to more fun and friends (if less sparkliness) then.

For more Ad Astra 2007 pics, click here.

Caitlin to Head Jury for 2007 Sunburst Awards

This year Caitlin will head the jury for the Sunburst Awards. The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a juried award based on excellence of writing. It is presented annually to a Canadian writer with a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection of speculative fiction published any time during the previous calendar year. Named after the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction, the award consists of a cash award of Cdn$1,000 and a medallion which incorporates a specially designed "Sunburst" logo. The winner receives his or her award in the fall of every year.

An Evening of Words and Music

Music inspired by the works of Caitlin Sweet, Guy Gavriel Kay, and R. Scott Bakker will be performed by composer Martin Springett who will be accompanied by Chris McKhool on violin and Rahlen Sullaphen on bass. All three authors will be reading from their works. The event will be held in The Merrill Collection of SF Speculation and Fantasy, 293 College St., Third Floor on September 14th at 7:00 P.M. CDs and books will be available for purchase.

Bedtime Tales

Caitlin will be participating in a night of readings by 20 Toronto area writers, called Bedtime Tales: Fables and Fantasies, as part of Nuit Blanche, Toronto's all night cultural festival.
September 30, 2006, from 7pm to 7 am.
Confirmed participants include: Kelley Armstrong, Sabrina Jalees, Mariko Tamaki, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Caitlin Sweet, Gemma Files, Kristyn Dunnion, Lillian Allen, Russell Smith, Tamara Faith Berger, R.M. Vaughan, Paul Hong, Hadley Dyer. More to be announced...