My Favourite Reads of 2025
Hit my target of 52 books read for the year. You know what? I love reading. Completely trite to say so, but there it is. Several times throughout 2025, while I was lying on my couch (a battered yet fiendishly …
Two-for-One Sale – Multi-Award-Winning, Acclaimed Australian SF
This year, Ghost of the Neon God won both Best Science Fiction Novella at the Aurealis Awards, and Best Novella at the Ditmars. The Aurealis is a juried award, and genuinely features the best of Australian SF. The Ditmars is …
Creativity as Healing – Trauma Recovery Through Art
Art is not a luxury, it is a necessity. Let me show you why.
I write full time, which is another way of saying I’m broke. As such, I work several extra jobs (three, currently) to feed my writing habit. …
When a Character is a Weapon (Featuring Chrome Lin Vu)
I recently watched a thoughtful, interesting YouTube on ‘Writing Characters Who Are Weapons,’ by Tim Hickson. He’s a New Zealander who runs the channel HelloFutureMe, which deals with both writing as a craft and analysing pop culture. He’s got some …
Ditmar Awards voting is open (and you can nominate)
Ditmar Awards 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 (or have in recent …
BookTube Interview – Five Sci-Fi Novel Recommendations
I recently did an interview with Jonathan, an Australian BookTuber who runs a channel called Words in Time. He’s got some great content, so I recommend you go and check it out. I’ve embedded the interview in this article, …
Ghost of the Neon God – Aurealis Award Winner
Australia’s premier award for speculative fiction is the Aurealis. It is a juried award, and genuinely features the best of Australian SF. I get anxious every year in the lead up to the short list announcement, elated if I make …
It’s the People, Stupid (Human Art in a Company World)
Introduction
Discussion of Artificial Intelligence by the tech industry is equal parts dishonest and stupid. It is a discussion founded on the invidious lies of the snake oil salesman conjoined with the religious-like fervour of the fundamentalist.
Indeed, the cult …
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 …
Five Pieces of Awful Writing Advice (from the masters)
- Don’t keep a notebook (Stephen King)
“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, …