My Books – Where to Start Reading
Every time I’m guest at a Comic-Con or equivalent, someone will walk past my desk, see my array of cyberpunk books, and ask me where they should begin.
My short answer is always this: anywhere you like. They are …
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Supanova Convention: Going Home in the Back of Divvy Van
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 …
Award Eligibility – Ditmars
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 – Signed Editions
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 …
THE ULTIMATE CYBERPUNK PRIMER
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 …
Everything is Memory: Neon Leviathan Launch
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. …
The Importance of Reader Reviews (for authors like me)
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 …
The Writer’s Training Regime, Part 7: Dealing with Failure (and Success)
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 …
Interview: T. R. Napper Talks Neon Leviathan
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…
In Defence of the Dumb Phone
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 …