As a writing career began to coalesce around me, I learned that striving to expand the horizons of digital publishing proved far less successful than simply submitting stories for ordinary analogue publication. If I took on lesson from the experience of writing Hemmingway 0.5, it was to stick to paying markets. Unromantic? Sure, but necessary. [...]

A quick update. An interview I did recently with Dexter author Jeff Lindsay. I’ll post a bit more about it later, but here’s the official article up and published at Tom Magazine. Read it hereabouts.

Now I think about it, her statement was rich with a delicious deadpan humour. Propped up in bed, reading by the glow of a twelve-inch PowerBook, my wife gave the idea all the gravitas of a shopping list. ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘apparently book publishing has died.’ ‘Really?’ I said, looking up from my crisp new [...]

While digital technology has indeed revolutionised other entertainment industries even at the consumer level—from photography, to music, to film and television—book publishing in 2009 has remained steadfastly analogue. Authors have described a ‘rhetoric of resistance’ to the idea of electronic books, perhaps fuelled by the slow take up of the technology to read and dsitribute [...]

I don’t go to that many concerts, especially these days, but I try to make it when an essential artist (especially one from another twelve) rolls into town. There’s a few international behemoths in the list along with the usual obscurities. Random memories from The Arena: I joined a conga line that wound its way [...]

Is this where the specific twelves begin to become a little ridiculous? Well, not on this blog. I’m quite partial to a good satire and The Simpsons has really become the satire for my generation. I was sixteen when it first aired (on I believe the same night as the first episode of Twin Peaks, [...]

I’ve had a long piece knocking around in my computer for a while now and I thought I should probably get it out there before everything in it becomes outdated. Most of this was written earlier this year after a ton of research into the publishing industry and its approach to the digital form. Most [...]

And so back to our regular programming. Quite a bit of comedy in my selections for a television top twelve and not a lot of Australian television. I loathe most sketch comedy with a passion and that rules out almost every Australian comedy show ever made (okay The Chaser was good and so was The [...]

So, I’m in the final stages of drafting what I can safely call the manuscript for a new novel. It is now both novel-sized and novel-scoped (as opposed to previous drafts that were a little more sketchy) and I think it’s looking pretty good. I suspect there’s more work down the track (there always is), [...]

White is a short story divided into fourteen little chunks and available now for your reading pleasure at Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k). It’s very much in keeping with the style of Induction, my last published piece in that it’s stripped back and kind of cold. Not surprising considering all the snow. It’s also the first story [...]