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. [...]

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 [...]

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 no less than three times over the last eleven years. I’ve taken less time to write novels. All of them. Finally, with [...]

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” happens. While it seems rather strange that anyone would want to look at the pathetic bit of faux timber I call my desk, I [...]

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 summer. It’s freaking hot. Given a choice between writing a blog post by tethered phone (the equivalent of candlelight), unpacking boxes, or [...]

Since Somewhere back in October, the Queensland Writers Centre has been quietly winding its way through the blogs and backwaters of Queensland’s writers. Today the bus has parked outside and a ragtag bunch of blog tourists are welcomed in. Make yourselves at home. The coffee machine is on, but I can only do two cups [...]

You know those little words and phrases that seem to come from nowhere and suddenly pop up all around you like virulent pustules for where there is no known ointment? Do you have your own set of bête noires that haunt you and cause your ears to bleed and your eyeballs to pop out as [...]

I promise this is the last music-related twelve (an easy promise at part eleven). I got thinking about what made me such a music tragic in the first place. For me it was Saturday mornings watching music videos—mostly on Rage, but before that on some sad Channel Nine offering called Clipz (yes, with a Zed—I [...]

I made the call a while back that if the Australian Commonwealth accepted the recommendations of the Productivity Commission and lifted the restriction on parallel imports in the publishing industry, that I would lift a middle digit to my home and shift my fiction behind the closed walls of the United States. I am pleased [...]