Scott Overton

Today’s the day my new novel Zenith: Aftermath is officially released into the world. A look-ahead in adventure form. Check out www.scottoverton.ca/zenith-after... or go directly via my Universal Book Link to find it at your favourite online retailer. books2read.com/ZenithAfterm... #SFF #newbooks

Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures From a red-throated loon touching down on water, to good and bad hair days, and an airborne squirrel, here is a selection of the finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards

If you need a lighter moment, here's one courtesy of Mother Nature (and some very patient photographers). www.theguardian.com/environment/... #nature #photography #naturalhumor

You can judge a book by its cover. And sometimes a book trailer will tell you if the book is right for you. The trailer for my new novel Zenith: Aftermath is on my website here: www.scottoverton.ca/zenith-after...
Or on YouTube here: youtu.be/NtpX2BoTBLY #SFF #newbooks

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

If you're a fiction writer, there's still time to register for a free webinar tonight (Wed. Oct. 15 at 7pm Eastern). "Story Bones" with Susan Forest will explore the structure of successful novels. Presented by Canadian Authors Association and SF Canada. canadianauthors.org/national/pro... #writing

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

Join Canadian Authors and SF Canada for another FREE webinar this Wednesday October 15 at 7pm Eastern. Susan Forest presents "Book Bones" the structure of stories, including novel skeletons like the three-act structure, the Hero's Journey and more. Register here: canadianauthors.org/national/pro...

The front and back covers of the novel Zenith: Aftermath showing images of a middle-aged bearded man and a woman watched over by a spectral female face behind and above them and a high-speed train in the foreground.

My new science fiction novel Zenith: Aftermath is available for pre-order, coming out Oct. 31st. It's an exploration of digital intelligences and uploading as a group of VIPs is flung into a future world without humans. books2read.com/ZenithAfterm... #newbooks #SFF

A mother loon feeds a fish to her chick.

A loon chick follows its mother through the water.

The mama loon surfaces and feeds her chick with a fish. And if you're patient, you can be there with a camera.

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

If you write fiction that might involve medical intervention, don’t miss this week’s FREE webinar from Canadian Authors and SF Canada: “Medical Errors 101 – a physician’s tips on getting medicine right in your stories” by Melissa Yuan-Innes. Register at canadianauthors.org/national/pro... .

According to Wired: “China’s policy document, meanwhile, is promoting the mass production of non-implantable devices in various forms—forehead-mounted, head-mounted, ear-mounted, ear buds, and helmets, glasses, and headphones.” Cool? Maybe. But also with a dark side Augment Nation explores. #SFF

Book Cover of SF novel Augment Nation featuring a man with a neural implant known as a brain-computer interface.

Brain-computer interfaces as a commercial product? That’s the scenario of my SF-thriller novel Augment Nation and now China is heavily into the technology, according to Wired magazine www.wired.com/story/china-... . #SFF

Two loons swimming in a lake with a loon chick behind.

Loon parent feeding a minnow to a loon chick.

Loons are one of my favourite perks of living in Northern Ontario. Especially when the chicks arrive.

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

Tonight's free webinar from CAA and SF Canada (Wed. Aug. 20 7pm eastern) is "Ways of Understanding Humour" by Ira Layman, focusing on writing humour and satire, but it'll be entertaining and informative for all writers. Register at canadianauthors.org/national/pro... to get the link.

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

Want to add more humour into your writing? Join Canadian Authors and SF Canada for another free webinar this Wednesday August 20th at 7pm. "Ways of Understanding Humour" by Ira Nayman is sure to be an entertaining and informative session, so register here: canadianauthors.org/national/pro...

A honeybee on a clover flower.

A honeybee on a wild daisy.

An orange-abdomen bee on a cluster of tiny white and pink flowers.

A bee with an orange-striped abdomen on a white clover flower.

It's good to get outside and see what Nature's offering. Today it was lots of bees.

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

My writer friends, learn The Secret to Creating Compelling Narrative with a free webinar from Arlene F. Marks this Wednesday July 16 from 7 - 8:30 pm Eastern presented by CAA and SF Canada. Explore conflict, the dos and don'ts of suspense, and more. Register here canadianauthors.org/national/pro...

That awkward offspring that won't stop crying "Feed Me! Feed Me!"

Webinar Schedule | Canadian Authors Association Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

Writers: Canadian Authors and SF Canada provide webinars about writing and they're FREE. Register for the next three webinars at canadianauthors.org/national/pro... including "Give Your Writing Legs – The Secret to Creating Compelling Narrative" by Arlene F. Marks July 16 from 7 - 8:30 pm Eastern.

Canada and Canadians are the best and the world knows it.

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Graphics of a sunny beach and snowy landscape for the Smashwords July Summer/Winter Sale of ebooks.

The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale on ebooks is on now to July 31st. All my books are 50% off, even The Identity Crisis Collection: my first three science fiction novels bundled together for just $4.99 US! Use www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos then search“Scott Overton” (in quotes). Happy shopping!

To all the Canucks on BlueSky: Happy Canada Day! As if we weren't already so grateful to live in this wonderful country, along comes 2025 and an orange guy with a God complex and ... please don't ever let me take Canada for granted!

It’s National Indigenous Peoples Day here in Canada, and this is essential reading. For all people who want to walk with Indigenous peoples, and show with actions - not just words - that we are willing to work towards reconciliation, here are simple, clear actions to take.

CAA NATIONAL / SF CANADA EVENT – How to Market & Sell Short Fiction | Canadian Authors Association A wealth of courses and books exist to teach you how to write stories. But what happens when you've finished writing? Do you know how to sell what you've written? Based on the popular writer's guide, ...

Check out this writing webinar by @smithwriter.bsky.social on WedJune18! Co-sponsored by @canadianauthors.bsky.social & @sfcanadawriters.bsky.social, it's FREE to attend.
Playing the Short Game – How to Market & Sell Short Fiction
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Portrait photo of writer Douglas Smith.

And, again, it's free, presented by Canadian Authors Association and SF Canada. Here's the link to register. canadianauthors.org/national/pro...

Webinar Archives | Canadian Authors Association Ready to ramp up your writing career? Explore our webinars to discover tips and lessons on writing and related topics that can help you become an even better writer.

There's still a few days left to register for the free webinar "Playing the Short Game - How to Market and Sell Short Fiction" from Douglas Smith. You'll never meet anyone who knows more about getting the most mileage from your short stories. It's 7 - 8:30 pm Eastern on Wednesday June 18.

Plain reddish brown book cover of Danté's Inferno.

You’d think that all those local references would limit the size of his audience, but since it’s still considered a classic 700 years later, Danté’s literary skills obviously overcame that!

Although it demands a lot of slogging through footnotes for us modern readers, Danté very effectively makes the hellish punishments and their appropriateness clear and relatable by referencing characters his readers would have known well from classical mythology and his contemporary Italy.

My Storytelling Sampler lesson this time: Danté’s Inferno: Narrative poem from the 1300’s. The poet falls asleep and is led through the nine circles of Hell by the ancient Roman writer Virgil. (The first part of The Divine Comedy which also includes the Purgatory and Paradise.) #storytelling