With little more than a week to go before voting closes for the 2011 Ditmar Awards (22nd April, 2011) I have decided to make my nominated novelette "All the Clowns in Clowntown" temporarily available as a free PDF download.

"All the Clowns in Clowntown" was originally published in the wonderful anthology Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's ( Read more... )

It's Ditmar Award time again, and I have a number of works eligble this year across a number of categories. Over the next week or so I'll be posting extracts (and even links to a full version or two) of my stories, as well as to the illustrations I have eligble. But, to start things off here is a quick list:

Best Novella or Novelette:
* "All the ( Read more... )

In the last week lead-up to Ditmar Award nominations closing, I've posted free PDF versions of my eligble stories for you all to download. Have a read, have a look. If you enjoy want you read in the stories or see in the illustrations, please send a nomination my way.With the 2010 Ditmar Awards now open for nominations until the 23rd of July, I ( Read more... )

The list of finalists for the 2009 Aurealis Awards has been announced over at http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm

Very happy to see my short story "The Message" (from Midnight Echo #2) made the grade for Horror Short Story. There's some awesomely stiff competition there, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. Either way, a nomination is ( Read more... )

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Martin Livings (martinlivings) and Cat Sparks (catsparx) both have some very nice things to say about my writing over on Martin's LJ.

Martin gives a mini-review of the recent Midnight Echo #2, and my story "The Message" receives some high praise indeed.

Cat chimes in with a comment on how my story 'The Dumbshow' was possibly her favourite story from the CSFG Masques ( Read more... )

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Finally, on Sunday afternoon, I completed my 'Desert Song' story ( Read more... )

Yesterday's final word count?

2,342 words.

I think that might be a new daily record for me.

Back to it then...

**EDIT** Sorry for ignoring all your emails and comments over the last couple of days, but I'm going to get this thing finished before I reply to anyone. That should be sometime this afternoon if things go even half as well as

1654 words since 10.30am this morning. After a very dry week I'm extremely happy with that.

Looks like I definitely needed to step back and take a break for a day or two.

8,788 words in total and heading into the final two or three scenes.

I might even be back for more after dinner.