This week, I’m over on Antipodean SF with my drabble ‘The Final Squeeze‘. A drabble is a short story of exactly 100 words. To write one is a test of skill and storytelling! Here’s the beginning: Skyscrapers collapsed into the oceans. Meteors lit the Anderson’s faces. Their neighbour’s escape pod…
Last week, my eleven-year-old daughter came home with the news that she’d been sent to the principal’s office. When she told me, I didn’t know how to react. The exact same thing had happened to me when I was her age – except for my daughter at least there’d been…
As well as writing amazing stories (he he!), I run a full-time creative support business. It includes editing, mentoring, teaching, book layouts, and other publishing support for authors and publishers. My last two posts looked at filter words and points-of-view, but today I’ve got what I term ‘Over Blight’ on…
As well as writing amazing stories (he he!), I run a full-time creative support business. It includes editing, mentoring, teaching, book layouts, and other publishing support for authors and publishers. In my last post, I looked at filter words. Character ‘point-of-view’ or ‘POV’ is another writing issue close to my…
Giveaway time! My publishers are giving away three (3) signed copies of Towards White, valued at AUD$30 each!! They’ll send them to any address in Australia requested by the winners – so if you’ve already got a copy, you can gift the prize to someone else! All you have to…
As well as writing amazing stories (he he!), I run a full-time creative support business. It includes editing, mentoring, teaching, book layouts, and other publishing support for authors and publishers. Over the last few weeks, I’ve edited so many manuscripts riddled with filter words it’s time to speak up. I…
Last Wednesday I gave my judge’s report at the Mosman Literary Awards 2018, held at Mosman’s Barry O’Keefe Library. This annual prose and poetry competition attracts budding poets, playwrights and authors from schools across the state, all of whom compete for a share in the $2,000 prize pool. I’m the…
