I did an interview with the British Fantasy Society podcast in December last year which I had completely forgotten about until a few days ago, when it was published.
But you get it: December is a blur. You’re tired, you …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
