MICHAEL BLOUIN
author
WELCOME
"The work of the writer is to widen the theatre of wonder." - Ocean Vuong
AUTHOR PHOTO BY JULIE OLIVER /Postmedia
MOON LANDING
Breaking News:
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As featured on CBC and CTV, as a part of the NASA/Intuitive Machines Lunar Landing Mission to the Moon and as a component of NASA’s first return to the lunar surface in 50 years, a copy of “Skin House” (Anvil Press, 2020 ReLit Best Novel) was a part of the payload delivered in 2023.
The mission saw significant experiments conducted with live HD video feeds streaming from the moon. At a cost of more than $300 million U.S. this is a significant ongoing private/public initiative and to think that one of my novels has been included in the first payload is a little staggering.
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I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my current publisher Brian Kaufman, both for being my publisher and for facilitating the requisite file transfers (including the cover by designer Derek von Essen), all those who have supported me in my writing career, and most especially and particularly my friend and fellow author Carolyn R. Parsons (The Forbidden Dreams of Betsy Elliott) for providing the means for me to be involved in this historic expedition.
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I have always, like many of us, looked up at our moon with no small amount of wonder, and now to consider that those moments of wonder will have an extra facet for me for the rest of my life and perhaps in the lives of my grandchildren, well… it is something.
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UPDATE:
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SKIN HOUSE has landed successfully on the lunar surface with NASA and Intuitive Machines and has also been included on the manifest of SpaceX's 2024 lunar landing mission, to land alongside I AM BILLY THE KID.
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