The Laundryman/Fireboy Joint Book Launch

Join Saskatchewan authors Dwayne Brenna and Edward Willett of Regina for a joint book launch of two very different titles from Regina’s Shadowpaw Press!

Show Details:
The Laundryman/Fireboy Joint Book Launch
Date: Thursday, March 12th, 2026
Doors: 7:00PM
Readings and signings: 7:30PM
Free admission

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THE LAUNDRYMAN is a literary historical murder mystery set in Prince Albert during the winter of 1883-84, when two very different North West Mounted Police struggle to solve the murder of a Chinese laundryman and in the process undercover a tangled web of deceit and greed.

FIREBOY is a middle-grade modern-day fantasy adventure about a 13-year-old girl trying to figure out what happened to her Grade 7 science class, which disappeared on a field trip—and why her best friend, who was on that trip, has suddenly shown up in her back yard made entirely out of fire!

Meet the authors, enjoy readings from the books, buy books and get them signed, nibble on appetizers, and take advantage of The Artesian’s excellent bar service.

Dwayne Brenna is the award-winning author of several books of humour, poetry, and fiction. Coteau Books published his popular series of humorous vignettes entitled Eddie Gustafson’s Guide to Christmas in 2000. His two books of poetry, Stealing Home and Give My Love to Rose, were published by Hagios Press in 2012 and 2015 respectively. Stealing Home, a poetic celebration of the game of baseball, was subsequently shortlisted for several Saskatchewan Book Awards, including the University of Regina Book of the Year Award. His first novel, New Albion, about a laudanum-addicted playwright struggling to survive in London’s East End during the winter of 1850-51, was published by Coteau Books in autumn 2016. New Albion won the 2017 Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. It was also one of three English-language novels shortlisted for the prestigious MM Bennetts Award for historical fiction. His baseball novel Long Way Home was published by Pocol Press in 2022, and his theatre history text Nights That Shook the Stage (McFarland Books) came out in the spring of 2023. His short story collection Theories of Everything was published by Shadowpaw Press iin 2025. His short stories and poems have been published in an array of journals, including Grain, Nine, Spitbal l, The Antigonish Review, Intima, and The Cold Mountain Review.

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. He has been shortlisted multiple times for Saskatchewan Book Awards, and won for his young adult fantasy Spirit Singer (Shadowpaw Press). He won Canada’s top science fiction and fantasy award, the Aurora, for his second novel for DAW, Marseguro, and has been shortlisted several times since, as well, including for his most recent young adult science fiction novel, Star Song (Shadowpaw Press). Ed has also won an Aurora Award for his podcast, The Worldshapers. In addition to being a writer and editor, Ed is a professional actor and singer. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, a professional engineer.

Shadowpaw Press, located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, was founded in 2018 by award-winning author Edward Willett. Shadowpaw Press is a member of Literary Press Group (Canada) and the Association of Canadian Publishers, which has recognized it as a Certified Canadian Publisher. It publishes an eclectic selection of books by both new and established authors, including adult fiction, young adult fiction, children’s books, nonfiction, and anthologies, and has an extensive roster of Saskatchewan authors.