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 …
Want to understand the surveillance-state dystopia our world has descended into? Need a primer on our cyberpunk present? Desperate to know what comes after the plague?
Well friends, you’ve come to the right place. I doubt there are many humans …
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 …
Failure
Two-and-a-half years. That’s how long it’s been since I’ve sold a short story*. Thirty damn months since one of my new tales has found a market. In the first five years of my writing career, I sold an average …
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…
I have a dumb phone. Text messages, phone calls, that’s it. No apps, no touchscreen, no nothing. If people try to send emojis with their messages, a black square comes up, like part of the text is redacted (wouldn’t the …
I’m posting this to collect into one place your purchase options for Neon Leviathan (I’m pretty damn chuffed, I should add, with the early reviews), in particular for hard copies, based on where in the world you are. …
The day has come. My short story collection is now out in the world.
I’m not sure how to do soft sells or hard sells, or anything in between. So let me say 
this: buy it you bastards, and read …
Cyberpunk is now.
The iconic opening of Blade Runner (1982) is stamped with the date November 2019. This has inspired several mainstream publications to ask: what did Blade Runner get right about the future?
As we’ll see, these articles …
Somewhere in the fugue induced by the final stages of my doctorate – there’ve been times I’ve not been sure of the day or month I’m in – I acquired a new literary agent. And a damned good one, at …
