Discussing Australian authors, their writing and fandom.
The 2014 Aussie Speculative Fiction Snapshot The Australian speculative fiction snapshot series celebrates the breadth and depth of Australia’s speculative fiction scene by interviewing prominent writers, editors and booksellers in the industry. I was first interviewed for the series in 2012 (by David McDonald), and it’s an honour to be…
I’m on the radio! Thanks to The AntipodeanSF Radio Show, you can now listen to my flash fiction story “Shy” just by clicking on this link. It’s the first story on the show, so just listen from the beginning and you’ll soon hear Ion Newcombe introducing me – it’s a…
I can’t believe it… I’ve been nominated for a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent! Thank you so much to everyone who nominated me for this wonderful honour – I’m seriously indebted to you 🙂 For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction…
For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction writing. Nominations for the awards are currently open and can be made by anyone who has been to a recent speculative fiction convention / event OR is otherwise active in the speculative fiction world as…
In January this year, I asked a bunch of writers what their writing goals were for 2013. Was their focus going to be novels, short stories, non-fiction… what? I was interested to see what everyone was planning to achieve, so conducted a poll on my Facebook page. Here are the results…
Last weekend, I took my two kids to a book fair. In the interests of book-loving parents everywhere, I thought I’d share with you what made this particular book fair so very wonderful! 1. Stock plenty of kids’ books! Kids love looking at and buying books! If you’ve got a…
It often amazes me how similar we writers are to one another. Whether we’re confident and smiling on the outside or visibly nervous, on the inside most of us are the same – we’re full of self-doubt, sensitive and highly analytical. We have to be these things in order to…
