If you’re not already aware, the main project I’ve been working on for the last few months is Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction. Submissions closed November 30th last year, and I finished reading through them all by the beginning of this year.

I’m now at the stage of having the proof copy in my hands within the next week, and ( Read more... )

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If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter then you may be aware that Fae Fatales: A Fantasy Noir Anthology already reached its primary funding goal. This means the book is definitely happening, and everyone who has contributed through the Indiegogo campaign will get their copy of the book. It reached the goal less than halfway through.

Since then, ( Read more... )

Over the past 11 days, Fae Fatales: A Fantasy Noir Anthology has been up on Indiegogo, doing nicely with contributions from people who want to see the book in print. As I write this, it is at 80% funded, with 19 days to go. We’d really love to see it fully funded early so we can start organising stretch rewards - additional perks that everyone can ( Read more... )

My friend and fellow writer Jax Goss just launched a crowdfunding campaign for the first book to be released by Solarwyrm Press.

I’m going to tell you a bit about it now, or you can jump ahead and check it out on Indiegogo.

This is a project that’s been in the works for about a year. Jax had written a story in the fantasy noir genre, and then ( Read more... )

Today, my short story Bridging the Divide was published in the inaugural issue of Plunge Magazine, an online magazine specifically focusing on queer women in genre fiction. This first issue’s theme was queer women in mythology.

Bridging the Divide follows a mermaid, Prudence, on a quest to find a murderer, set in London in 1894. It is a good ( Read more... )

( Fiction set in a post-apocalyptic Australia )

Whilst I’m not as big of a consumer of various media these days as I have been in the past, I have noticed there being a trend in the sorts of stories I enjoy. I’m not sure exactly when it started or why, but diversity is a part of the equation. Is it because when there’s a diverse cast, I feel like the writer(s) have paid more attention to ( Read more... )

As I’ve been working on my first novel, Adrift, I’ve been looking for ways to connect with other writers. Through Facebook, I added an expat writer recommended to me by a woman I know in Malaysia, as she had told me he led a writing group. Well, that had been defunct by the time I added him, but he connected me with another expat writer who ( Read more... )

It wasn't until I was giving my darling baby Daniel a bath and styling his hair with the water and suds that I noticed it. You might think I should have noticed earlier than the ten months stage, but I didn't. It took his new rock star hair-do for me to realise that he was the spitting image of my idol, Gareth Burns.

( More fiction follows )