“I think a writer’s notebook is the best way in the world to immortalise bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around.”
Terrible advice, …
The Escher Man took me ten years to write. Aliens: Bishop took five months. Ghost of the Neon God was a short short story, then two short stories, then a final expansion into a novella. Three books, three radically different …
Preorders are, apparently, a big thing. Publishers place huge importance on them.
As far as I can tell, there are three main reasons for this: 1) They are a way to gauge future interest in the book, and therefore inform …
Ditmar voting is open. For the uninitiated, the Ditmars are the annual Australian peer-voted awards for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
What does peer-voted mean? Well, that you are either attending the National Convention (this year it is Conflux …
This originally was going to be my acceptance speech for the Aurealis Awards, but my wife talked me out of it, saying it it was ‘too sad’. I’d been nominated in the SF Novella and Novel categories. I didn’t …
I received two Aurealis Awards nominations, and it is fair to say I’m pleased. These are (easily) Australia’s premiere speculative fiction awards. They are also juried – which while carrying its own flaws, I’d take any day of the …
After two very long days at Supanova, talking about my novel to readers, I left Sydney at 7pm Sunday, looking forward to collapsing into my own bed back in Canberra later that night. Instead, I found myself pitching my book …
Delayed (by you-know-what) a couple of months, I launched my debut novel in Canberra on Sunday, 29 May. To be blunt, I find these things exhausting – unless you’re a superstar, you organise the entire event yourself, which is a …
Very happy to have received a nomination in Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards, the Aurealis. I was shortlisted in the ‘Best Science Fiction Novella or Novelette’ category for A Vast Silence, which first appeared in the Magazine of …
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 …
