Lots of books arrived this week! My print copy of the Sci Phi Journal collection arrived, which I can’t wait to read cover to cover. It includes my story ‘Let the Tempest Hold Me Down‘, which was published in this Hugo-nominated journal last year. My story tells the tale of…
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 (a) has been to a recent speculative fiction convention / event OR (b) is otherwise active in the speculative fiction…
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope that 2017 is all you want it to be and more. Many people are saying they’re glad to see the back of 2016. For me it was the same as every year… If life is a mountain we must climb, I see each year…
Books, books, books! This weekend has been a busy one, in a fabulously #RockstarAuthor way! On Friday night I launched “A Fearsome Engine” in Manly, Sydney; then I caught a plane to launch “Into Tordon” in Adelaide. Woo hoo – jetsetting! Lucky, lucky me. Of course I thought of you…
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,…
