I am very happy that early next year I will be making my second appearance in Aurealis magazine with my very dark story, Grey Soup. My previous story published there was my alternative history horror story of the Apollo age, Avoiding Gagarin, back in 2014. Time flies when … well time flies regardless, that is […]
Thank you! I aim (not) to please. I too am grateful to ergot. Also grateful to Jonny Pickering of Seize the Press magazine for reading this story and taking the time to comment. (You can read the story by clicking here.)
I have a new story live over at foofaraw zine, a bit of fun called “Developing your mindfulness practice 😊 !” . I trust this will fix all of your mental hygiene issues while you wait for The Coming of The Great Ones. Unless your name is Little Johnny. Or Bambi. Check it out by […]
From time to time I think that we should all remember to thank those who add something to our lives. If you like speculative fiction, I hope that like me you look forward each month to Lisa Tuttle’s book recommendations in the Guardian. Short, well-written, non-spoilerish, and with an authority not possessed by book influencers […]
So there is no real metric other than enjoying what I do. A writer is someone who writes, I spose. But when are you really a writer? When someone publishes your story? When someone pays you for a story? When someone pays you SFWA approved professional rates for a story? That happened once, early on. […]
FUN!! CRUX is available now.
I enjoyed the film Moneyball but nowhere near as much as Michael Hann. Funny thing is though, I would describe the book by Michael Lewis in much the same way as Hann as described the film. I maybe have some vague vestigial interest in sport, having been brought up in a Rugby League loving family […]
My wife has had many opportunities to notice my habit of ducking out of the room to avoid second hand embarrassment from TV. I can deal with tension, I have trouble with cringing. Lately I have noticed that I have had to pause reading when I am disturbed by weird things. Today I had to […]
I am very happy that I have a story appearing in CRUX 2026, created, published, edited, produced, etc, by Meridian Australis, “Melbourne’s premier speculative fiction organisation” – it must be true, they would not say it if it wasn’t. CRUX Volume 1 is being launched at Readings Carlton on 4 June. Unfortunately I live 878 […]
David Malouf has died. I stopped reading David Malouf simply because I had read everything he had written. I lie. Not his poetry. It is a great failure of mine, I can only read poetry that I read at high school. Some lack of trust in myself. Some lack in myself. Some lack. So, correction. […]
