I’ll be lending my digital head to the Australian Writers Marketplace Industry Masterclass at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival. This industry seminar will introduce you to agents, publishers and writers and take you on a journey from manuscript development to published author promotion.  It will cover the role of agents in a writer’s life, the [...]

A newly compiled and polished edition of my short story collection Saccades is now available in both print and digital editions. It’s the first of two releases from the web site over the next few months leading up to Off the Record‘s launch in October. Best of all, for the bargain hunters out there, the [...]

Author. Editor. I tried coming up with a portmanteau for what I do, but the best I could manage was ‘authditor’ (given that ‘auditor’ was already taken). Somehow this unholy Vulcan-mind-meld of roles has not so far completely done my head in. Then again, maybe I’m not the best judge of these things. Being both [...]

If you’re heading to the Byron Bay Writers Festival and you’re interested in writing (you poor sod), it may behove you to check out the Nuts & Bolts professional development workshop for writers. BBWF Nuts & Bolts is proudly sponsored by The Australian Writer’s Marketplace, and programmed and chaired by Queensland Writers Centre. Now in [...]

We have set up a specific blog for Off the Record which will kick off this coming Wednesday at 25yearsofstreetpress.com. For your convenience, here’s the first post: Off the Record has been compiled from articles originally published in Australian street press from 1986 to 2010. It contains interviews with no less than 95 artists: Australian [...]

With Sean Sennett, I have just completed co-editing an anthology of music interviews from Australian street press. Off the Record: 25 Years of Music Street Press will be published on 25th October 2010 by UQP and features interviews with ninety-five artists from 1986 to 2010—from bands on the cusp of greatness to megastars at the height [...]

Okay, I understand that few people will get the Art of Fighting reference in the title, but so what? The important thing is, progress continues on the frightening volume of work underway. And this is more or less a post to remind myself I’m still a writer with a blog. Fiction does what it does. [...]

Tomorrow, I will host the second TwitterFEST session for the Emerging Writers Festival. The session today went down remarkably well, despite my turning up right at the end and contributing only by telling everyone that I was late. In fact, it was fast and furious with discussion flying all over the place. I only hope [...]

Alright, so the blog posts have been few and far between of late, but the general level of distraction is declining, so I’ll resume regular broadcasts in the near future when I have something worth talking about. In the meantime, I’ll be taking part in the Emerging Writers Festival via the jiggery pokery of this [...]

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 Edge has a long and troubled past. Hollow Edge began life as a very different story around [...]