My Favourite Reads of 2024
Hit my target of 52 books read for the year. As I keep saying (because it’s true) reading is part of the job of a writer. I put aside a couple of hours every evening to do so. When I …
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Three ways to write a novel: The Odyssey, The Fever Dream, and the Fix-Up
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 …
Well This Sucks (how Amazon screwed my new novel, and what to do about it)
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 …
News Update: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Award Nominations, New Projects, and Toxic Fandom)
It was a huge honour, about a month back, to receive two nominations for the Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier prize for speculative fiction. I got category nods for ‘Best Science Fiction Novel’, (Aliens: Bishop) and ‘Best Fantasy …
Double the Punk – Two New Releases – Ghost of the Neon God and The Escher Man
I have not one, but two books coming out this year. Which makes me appear incredibly productive, but it’s all an illusion, as you will see. The books:
Ghost of the Neon God is a novella set in Australia. I …
My Favourite Reads of 2023
Finally hit my target of 50 books this year. Reading is part of my job as a writer, and I aim to do so every evening. I’m not fast and wouldn’t want to be. I savour what I read (when …
Year in Review – Awards, Book Deals, and Incandescent Rage
Big year. It started relentlessly, and never really gave up. January kicked off with my finishing a tie-in novel, Aliens: Bishop.
Never thought I’d write a tie-in novel, never thought I could write any novel in 4.5 months, never …
Aliens: Bishop (why I shut up and took the gig)
I wrote an Aliens novel. I did it in five months and I can’t quite remember how. My previous record for completing a full-length novel was about three years.
I didn’t want to write an Aliens novel. Not at first. …
Awards Eligibility – Ditmars
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 …
The Line Between Success and Failure in Publishing
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 …