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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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. [...]