Digital Publishing in Brisbane

Digital Publishing in Brisbane

This is great. The Queensland Writers Centre has launched a centre for digital publishing based in Brisbane. It’s called if: book Australia.
It’s important that the QWC is driving this and encouraging authors to become digitally literate. Like it or not, the future of reading will be both on screen and on paper. Actually, no, forget [...]

Twelves Part Five – Films

Twelves Part Five – Films

An obvious one and done not too difficult to compile, though I suspect I’ll soon be horrified at what I’ve left out.
Obvious directorial must haves: Cohen Brothers, Woody Allen, Tim Burton, Francis Ford Coppola, Hitchcock. So Lebowski beats Fargo, Zelig beats Love and Death (only just), Ed Wood beats Sleepy Hollow and Beetlejuice, Godfather beats [...]

Shortlisted for the Text Prize

Shortlisted for the Text Prize

Concentrate, the first novel for younger readers co-written with my brother Darren has been shortlisted for the 2009 Text Prize. You can check out a short blurb and strange bio for the Brothers Groth at the Text web site.

Twelves Part Four – Short Stories

Twelves Part Four – Short Stories

Short stories for me are a lot like songs. They’re arranged into ‘albums’, sometimes shithouse compilations, but sometimes wonderful works by single artists. The best collections transcend their individual stories to form something greater, but even in the best collections there are standouts. Sometimes the standouts lend their title to the collection as happens in [...]

One hundred and forty-four

One hundred and forty-four

Over dinner with a friend last week, I was casually asked, ‘So what’s the next twelve?’
‘What do you mean?’
‘What is part four?’
‘I haven’t got one.’
‘But you’re doing twelve lists, aren’t you?’
‘No.’
‘That’s the impression you gave.’
‘Really? Oh crap.’
So, I’ve spent some time since that night wondering exactly what I can now include in more meaningless lists. [...]