The Australian Horror Writers’ Association is celebrating its 10th anniversary by releasing a ‘best of’ Midnight Echo anthology, ‘Dead of Night’, and guess who’s in it? Me! Woo hoo! Midnight Echo is Australia’s premier horror magazine and I was thrilled to be published in it back in 2013 with my…
Yesterday I made the long trip out to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in support of The Kids’ Cancer Project and their Write-a-Book-in-a-Day, or WABIAD, challenge. I enter the challenge every year and invite members of the writers’ group I run, the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group, or NBWG, to enter…
What a fantastic Friday! I was on the radio, in the newspaper (click on the clipping to read!), on a blog, and high after the Sydney launch of my co-authored book for 8-14yrs “Into Tordon” by Z.F. Kingbolt. I still can’t believe that nine of us wrote it. Yes, nine!…
It’s been a crazy busy month! First up, I have to tell you about an anthology that’s just been released, which includes my story “Let The Tempest Hold Me Down”: If creatures lived in our mist and steam, cloud and skies, Tek would be one of them. Frustrated by tradition,…
Save the date! Friday 21st October, 6pm! It’s when the wonderful Susanne Gervay will launch my joint alter ego, Z.F. Kingbolt at Berkelouw Books in Balgowlah. See invite! I created the identity of Z.F. Kingbolt with a bunch of writer friends specifically to engage readers between 8-14yrs and Into Tordon…
What a busy but fulfilling month! I’ve judged three short story competitions, attended one festival, two presentation ceremonies, featured in one local newspaper and one local magazine, agreed to one free writing workshop for kids, and have signed a book deal! Wow! Wanna see some photos? Last Wednesday I presented…
Woo hoo! I’ve just sold my novel Towards White to the International Fantasy Writers’ Guild, or IFWG. More on this to come over the following months, but the guys at IFWG are so excited to be bringing my novel to life and getting it into the hands of readers. What…
