Sunshine Through The Rain #2022

It’s raining today. The forecast over the next few days is also for rain, on and off. There is a single day of ‘sun’. It feels like a metaphor for 2021, searching through time for the brightness among the drab, for the fun among the dreary. In my first blog…

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Culture Map Live @BeachesCouncil

Visibility is a key component of any business – including cultural and creative ones! So my fabulous local council has created a map of the local area, pinpointing all things creative and cultural on the Northern Beaches: ‘Culture Map Live‘. I’m thrilled to be included on the map as an author,…

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Publication Day at SFS Stories!

Yay! My story ‘The Police Watchman’ has just been published in Issue 4 of ‘SFS Stories’. SFS Stories is a throwback to the golden age of fantasy and science fiction. This issue, edited by the fabulous Rob Castor and J.A. Taylor, contains five fascinating science fiction stories sharing one common…

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Creative Community Lockdown Collaboration!

Books are here! Over the past few months, I’ve been busy doing everything I can to keep both my creativity and the creativity of others inspired. It’s been a tough time for a lot of authors – author appearances cancelled, author appearances not even organised, community creativity projects ditched due…

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Welkin: A Magazine of the Fantastic

Publication day! My story ‘The Kind of Man’ has been published in Volume I Issue 3 of ‘Welkin’, a magazine of fantastic literature, meticulously edited by J. McKenzie Nalley and beautifully illustrated by Zuzanna Kwiecien. This issue is a special issue of horror and dark fantasy, and I’m thrilled to…

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Talking Writing With @PanacheCat

Today I’m over on the Panache Cat blog talking to Jacqui Brown, editor of Women’s Ink and Varuna House alumni, about… writing! Here’s Jacqui’s intro to the interview: A run-in with a street thief seems like an unlikely moment to know you’re truly a writer, but that’s the way it…

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People Perceiving People

The other day on Facebook, an old schoolmate gave me a really nice compliment. I haven’t seen or spoken to her since school, so the compliment was based on her memories and online perceptions of me. Still, her genuinely lovely comment threw me because I had no idea she or…

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