-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2026-
WINNIPEG AUTHOR D.G. VALDRON SELF-PUBLISHING WORKSHOP FOR MANITOBA WRITERS’ GUILD SEPTEMBER 5, 2026.
Contact Den Valdron:
Ph: 204-794-3151
E-mail: nadayvaldron@gmail.com
Website: https://denvaldron.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Naday_Valdron/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=2
On Saturday September 5, 2026 Winnipeg author D.G. Valdron will be presenting the Manitoba Writers’ Guild workshop Field Guide to Self Publishing, an introduction and overview for writers interested in exploring options in self-publishing and small press publishing. Along with an overall grounding in the landscape, and offering a blueprint for a self-publishing pathway, Valdron will provide plenty of practical tips and tricks.
Date: Saturday September 5, 2026
Time: 2pm – 4.30pm
Place: Boardroom, Artspace Building, 100 Arthur St, Winnipeg.
Price: $20 members/$30 non-members
https://mbwriters.ca/field-guide-to-self-publishing/
D.G. Valdron is a Winnipeg writer and novelist known for speculative fiction, horror, fantasy as well as several nonfiction volumes about cult TV series. He has an extensive resume and has self-published 27 books of his own over the last 8 years and 15 for other writers. He has also been a guest speaker at many literary conventions and conferences across North America.
Last year he was a guest panelist at the CanCon Writer’s Festival in Ottawa, and has done panels and presentations at When Words Collide, North American Science Fiction Convention, World Fantasy Convention, as well as Winnipeg’s Keycon Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. In 2026 he participated in the Indy Writers Conference in Toronto, and Keycon in Winnipeg. This fall he will be giving two presentations and moderating a panel at When Words Collide in Calgary August 14-16; he will have a table of his horror books at Winnipeg Horror Con on September 12; and will be participating in Ottawa’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Literature Convention CanCon from October 16-18.
Valdron also gives lectures on writing and copyright issues with the Manitoba Writers’ Guild, and at this year’s Calgary When Words Collide writers’ festival he will conduct crash courses in copyright and contracts for writers, and will moderate a panel on the impact of AI on the business of writing and publishing.
SOME OF D.G. VALDRON’S BOOKS
Above: Winnipeg author D.G. Valdron (L). A drawing of the late Ewen Campion-Clarke (R).
Valdron is known for fantasy books like “The Mermaid’s Tale”, but he also has a strong connection to the BBC’s Dr Who TV series, having published a three-volume compendium on Dr. Who fan films. Like many true “Whovians”, he wrote Dr. Who fanfiction: several short stories, a little meta-fanfiction, and a quirky oddball novel. After posting them online, he was surprised to be contacted from Australia by a fellow Dr. Who fan, Ewen Campion-Clarke. In 2020, Ewen took Valdron’s stories and adapted them into full-length scripts for an idealized season of shows for the long running BBC series. The two became online friends.
In 2024, Ewen learned he had cancer. He was only in his late 30’s, still a young man. While he put up a good fight, his slow decline was marked with personal misfortune: his cat died, his laptop fried, and he was in and out of coma until he passed away in July, 2025. Ewen had always wanted to be a writer. He’d produced some novels and a lot of fan fiction, but never got published. In the end, much of his life’s work was buried on a fried hard drive and scattered across the internet on the archives of fan sites. Valdron felt this was unfair. Ewen was a good writer who deserved to be remembered. So he tracked down Ewen’s mother, asked her permission, and then gathered up Ewen’s New Doctor Who tales, and adapted them into the further adventures of H.G. Wells’ nameless TIME TRAVELER, with his associates, Heart and Diamond, mysterious twins gifted with sarcasm and superpowers. So at this year’s Winnipeg Keycon 42 on May 15-17 Valdron participated in three panels and also premiered his two-volume adaptations of Ewen’s scripts: The TIME TRAVELER CHRONICLES, Season One and Two.
The TIME TRAVELER CHRONICLES and other books by D.G. Valdron are available in eBook and print on Amazon.ca.
Last Halloween the Manitoba Writers’ Guild held the launch of his novel “Squad Thirteen – Worse Than Death” a nihilistic, surrealistic blood-and-guts slasher horror novel with innovative cinematic characteristics.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrcF4jgM82IoE3oGiyUV9bzHW7UQYOfp9
https://denvaldron.com/2025/08/04/squad-thirteen-its-official/
https://amazingstories.com/2025/10/new-book-review-squad-thirteen-by-d-g-valdron/
His previous novel, “The Mermaid’s Tale” is a highly rated fantasy book that crosses genres into the mystery/detective story. A mermaid has been killed horrifically, and so her people have summoned a terrifying creature, a nameless Orc to hunt down the murderer. But as she searches, she discovers something else: this world’s first serial killer. Valdron is currently working on the sequel.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Mermaids-Tale/dp/B076B5DJHW
He recently released “Murder-Chickens on Mars”, and “B-Movie Monsters in Love” the third and fourth volumes in his “Curious and Exotic Speculations” series, taking deep dives into real and fictional worlds, using incisive reasoning, careful detective work, and rigorous approaches to history, biology and physics to go beyond the surface of strange territories.
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Chickens-Mars…/dp/B0G75ZR21K
He has published several books of short stories, such as a trilogy of horror collections and the two-volume “Drunk Slutty Elf” comedy-fantasy anthologies, as well as three books in the “Alternative History” genre. Recently he has sold two short stories to Polar Borealis and On-Spec Magazine, periodicals devoted to Canadian Speculative Fiction and Fantasy.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/D.G.-Valdron/author/B08BFCMV57?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/15163747.D_G_Valdron
On the non-fiction side, he has used his encyclopedic knowledge of cult movies and TV to write multi-volume examinations of the iconic Canadian sci-fi TV series “The Starlost” and “LEXX”, and on the international phenomenon of Dr. Who Fan Films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iov_sSL-yWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uz1gOPLffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xDA6jY_-ZY
In 2025 he was chosen as one of four authors challenged with the task of writing stories based on art by celebrated Canadian artist Robert Pasternak, without knowing a single thing about it, for the book “Twilight of Echelon.” All they have are Robert’s illustrations to go by. To make things even more interesting none of the authors know what the other is writing about. The end result is a world told from four unique perspectives with four distinct narratives creating a singular work in scope, design, narrative, layout, and execution.
https://atbaypress.com/books/detail/twilight-of-echelon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnvJarlv5FU
For over two years Valdron has been an internet content creator on his YouTube channel “The Attic with D.G. Valdron.” There he discusses his own works, provides tips and advice on writing for authors, and gives reviews of movies and TV shows ranging from corporate blockbusters to obscure indie films.
https://www.youtube.com/@Naday_Valdron
Not content to rest on his laurels, he is constantly driven to work on new projects. He has three new books on the way: a fantasy novel, a time-travel story, and a new Alternative History book.
Books by D.G. Valdron are available in eBook and print on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple and many other platforms.
Contact:
Ph: 204-794-3151
E-mail: nadayvaldron@gmail.com
Website: https://denvaldron.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Naday_Valdron/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=2
November 2, 2025 D.G. Valdron’s “Squad Thirteen” book launch included a dramatic performance of the opening chapter “Prologue with a Vampire”.
Above: Valdron at CanCon 2025 in Ottawa.
