Tuesday, May 20th, I’ll be participating on a panel for the Sydney Writer’s Festival. The other speakers are D.M. Cornish, authour of Monster Blood Tattoo and Stuart Mayne, current editor of the Aurealis magazine.
The topic is world building in speculative fiction. We will be talking about various perspectives involved in the creation of viable, (hopefully) […]

Here are a couple of pics, as promised, with thanks to Christine.
 
Here’s Will Elliot and me, post-bourbon/ pre-ceremony

This is me, not passing out, during my acceptance speech.
For a more rounded view of the event, click here for
a heap of pictures from the night.

Well, I did say I’d keep you posted… And Samantha kindly sent me a congratulatory email and told me to get blogging- so here I am.
The Aurealis Awards took place on the 26th in Brisbane. I am amazed to tell you that I received the award for best Science Fiction novel, and, whilst still reeeling […]

A couple of weeks back, I had the surreal experience of having a radio interview recorded in my rooms at Baulkham Hills. Vincent O’Donnell runs a radio show in Melbourne for Arts Alive; a program that has been running for ten years dealing in arts and culture. As he was in Sydney we had the opportunity […]

Last Tuesday, I had the chance to pop down to Melbourne and do a series of interviews. It was quite a surreal experience. Having not had much call for dealing with the media to date I have to say it was quite fun. Apart from a series of quick radio spots I managed to have […]

There will be an official book launch on the 9th of August.
Venue: Ariel Booksellers, 42 Oxford Street, Paddington
Time: 7.00pm
Champagne and canapes will be provided along with music peformed by Alan Healy’s Finnegans Wake.
First Class food with music from steerage, what more could you desire?
See you there…