36 Streets – available now
It’s done. Five years, working on this novel. Giving up on it, coming back to it, agonising, creating, drafting and re-drafting, and the bloody thing is done. Now – marketing BS aside – it’s out of my hands and up …
Category: Fiction
Praise for 36 Streets
Breaking out the begging bowl and approaching successful authors for a book quote was one of my least favourite parts of finalising 36 Streets. In fact I hated it. “Hey, you don’t really know me, but could I …
Award Eligibility – Ditmars
Ditmar voting is open. For the uninitiated, the Ditmars are the annual peer-voted awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy in Australia.
What does peer-voted mean? Well, that you are either attending the National Convention (this year it is Conflux – …
Neon Leviathan – Signed Editions
Neon Leviathan is a multi-award winning, extremely-well reviewed collection of short stories. Not being one for orgiastic self-promotion, I find myself uncomfortable writing this sentence. However, as no other bastard is going to do this for me, I got to …
The State of Cyberpunk in the Asia-Pacific
I participated in an excellent webinar a few days ago on ‘the state of cyberpunk in the Asia-Pacific.’ It’s more than that, though – a wide-ranging discussion of the origins of cyberpunk, what it is today, and where it is …
Everything is Memory: Neon Leviathan Launch
Long delayed and long anticipated (by me, if no one else) the launch of my short story collection, Neon Leviathan, happened last week. There’s little to report, other than it all went well and afterwards, everybody bought me drinks. …
The Importance of Reader Reviews (for authors like me)
Word of mouth still matters. It matters a lot, to pretty much to every writer who a) isn’t famous, and b) doesn’t have a major publisher willing to spend a fortune on marketing. Even for those, it still damn well …
Social Media and the Death of Creativity
The capacity to daydream and an urge to seek out the new are at the heart of an artistic life. Social media kills both.
A mind that wanders is a creative mind. A wandering mind activates the part of the …
I have some news (yes, it’s a book deal)
Well, a few short weeks after I write an article about dealing with failure and rejection as a writer, the precise opposite happens. Maybe the best thing that can happen: an offer from a major publisher (okay, technically the very …
Interview: T. R. Napper Talks Neon Leviathan
This interview with the ‘Track of Words’ website was from a few months ago. But it’s a good one, touching on a lot of my influences and motivations for writing. I encourage you to go here for the full interview…