Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
The generosity of some writers astounds me. Five amazing writers just read my upcoming solo debut Towards White, and gave my publisher IFWG Australia five amazing quotes about it, all while juggling their own projects, writing and family. I had to know more. So today I’m asking David McDonald, what…
The generosity of some writers astounds me. Five amazing writers just read my upcoming solo debut Towards White, and gave my publisher IFWG Australia five amazing quotes about it, all while juggling their own projects, writing and family. I had to know more. So today I’m asking Pamela Freeman, what…
For the last five years, I’ve wrangled a team of writers from the pool of awesome talent that is the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group to compete in the annual Write-a-Book-in-a-Day challenge and raise money for The Kids’ Cancer Project. This year was as much of a challenge as ever, but…
Wow, I love the cover for my upcoming sci fi mystery ‘Towards White’, so couldn’t wait to share it with you! Thank you so much to my publisher IFWG and their amazing designer Elizabeth Lang! Due out this September/October. More updates to follow. Squee!
Congratulations to the Australian Horror Writers’ Association and Shane Jiraiya Cummings for winning the 2016 Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Work with ‘Dead of Night: The Best of Midnight Echo Magazine‘. Woo hoo! The collection includes my story ‘Darker’. I’m particularly chuffed because the year ‘Darker’ was first published…
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…
