Hollow Edge Published 

1. Hollow Edge Published

A new story, Hollow Edge, is now published and online at Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k). The story is a nice companion to some of my more recently written and published short stories, especially White. But, unlike those stories, Hollow...
Collected Stories 

2. Collected Stories

A digital short story collection by Simon Groth Price: $10.00 YAK shopping cart plugin for WordPress Add to cart Ten original short stories written by Simon Groth, individually wrapped and packaged into a digital zip file for your...
Coda 

3. Coda

A short story by Simon Groth Price: $5.00 YAK shopping cart plugin for WordPress Add to cart Martin Finn wants to write the great Australian novel. Only trouble is he can’t speak, he can’t type, move a muscle in his body,...
Twelve Years, One Month, and Thirteen Days 

4. Twelve Years, One Month, and Thirteen Days

A digital short story by Simon Groth Price: $1.50 YAK shopping cart plugin for WordPress Add to cart Rain thrums on the tin roof and the water is rising in Norman Creek, but Mavis Jolley isn’t going anywhere. More than twelve...
Zipper 

5. Zipper

A digital short story by Simon Groth Price: $1.50 YAK shopping cart plugin for WordPress Add to cart Something happened on the Zipper and now Mel is stuck in some old hospital ward where there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong...
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eBook format wars

eBook format wars

A timely post from Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords. Mark broke down a 100,000-strong sample of January’s eBook downloads from Smashwords by popularity. The results showed PDF to be the most...
Hollow Edge Published

Hollow Edge Published

A new story, Hollow Edge, is now published and online at Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k). The story is a nice companion to some of my more recently written and published short stories, especially White. But,...
New story published soon

New story published soon

A new short story titled Hollow Edge will soon be published by those venerable Americans at Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k). This is a story with a long and tortuous history. It has been entirely re-written...
iPad and DRM: Take a deep breath

iPad and DRM: Take a deep breath

I think I may have already established that I’m no fan of digital rights management. The technology has already broken the corporate spirit of the music industry (not necessarily a bad thing) and—despite...
QWC Blog Tour 2010: Writing Work Space

QWC Blog Tour 2010: Writing Work Space

The Queensland Writers Centre is again touring the blogs of Queensland writers, this time to catch a sneak glimpse into the writer’s world: the desks, benches, or couches where the “magic”...
Confessions of an accidental print fetishist

Confessions of an accidental print...

Things appear to be speeding up in the  digital publishing world and finally the eBook is beginning to matter. No sooner does Apple announce their contribution to the continuing argument around what an...
Just don’t call it a tablet

Just don’t call it a tablet

So, the iPad is here and along with it the words words words of people rushing to pass judgement on a device based on little more than watching Steve Jobs wave it around for an hour or so. Oh, alright...
Time short, work high

Time short, work high

Much work has been happening behind the scenes around here. The classic time vampire of moving house has courted the new evil of internet starvation to produce something of a fallow season. It’s...
The iTunes of short stories

The iTunes of short stories

Well, Motoko Rich is convinced this is a harbinger. Christ, I hope not. Let me explain. The Atlantic monthly magazine has made moves to ‘partner’ (ugh) with Amazon to offer short stories for...
Immature debate

Immature debate

Kat Hannaford’s post yesterday at Gizmodo got me thinking, which is probably the point, but I am always wary of emotive arguments for or against particular technologies. The word ‘hate’...

About the Author

About Us

Simon Groth’s fiction has been given the nod in many illustrious journals and awards including the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards a couple of times. He usually writes sitting on a couch, surrounded by deadlines.

While he does own a few pieces, he himself was not personally responsible for assaying silver made in Copenhagen in the late nineteenth century. That was another Simon Groth.

The Twits

  • If my new story had legs, it would be limping. On the upside, editing seems to have fins. It goes swimmingly. 16 hrs ago
  • Plastic Ono Band has no competition for best post-Beatles album. Just something that needs saying (again). 3 days ago
  • Stuck my fingers up my nose to entertain the 2 and 5 year olds. I'm glad they have such low expectations. 4 days ago
  • You just don't see headlines like this any more: http://twitpic.com/188rln 6 days ago
  • Good advice from swimming lessons: one, two, three, four, breathe! 6 days ago
  • So that mysterious container in the freezer has pasta sauce, not curry. And I made rice. Is this fusion cooking? 1 week ago
  • On the upside, just booked Pixies tickets. Don't know about you, but I am un chien andalusia. 1 week ago
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