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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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. …
