Here are the 42 stories I'm planning to include in my new collection(s). Please feel free to suggest additions, deletions, running order, etc.

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Ok, time for me to get serious about self-publishing some e-books.

I need a cover for my crime novel Immunity: thinking of a photo of a petri dish (probably with a germ culture) on a black background with some handgun ammunition (9mm parabellum, by preference). Anyone able to help, please let me know, and we can talk payment.

Also, I'm thinking of ( Read more... )

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I enjoyed GenghisCon 2015 so much that I was inspired to volunteer for two positions for GenghisCon 2016: running a Killer game, and co-programmer of panels.

More details of the Killer game will be released closer to the time of the con, but I will say that it's based on John Carpenter's The Thing. Right now, I'm looking for panel suggestions and ( Read more... )

At Swancon 40, on Saturday April 4th, a panel of publishers and fiction editors - Kylie Chan, Cat Sparks, Andrew Harvey and Stephen Dedman - will be doing a blind reading of first pages of anonymous submissions from writers, and vote/comment on whether they’d be inclined to continue reading and what has interested them or turned them off. Work will ( Read more... )

Woke up to learn that Leonard Nimoy is dead, and Tony Abbott is still PM. It's been that sort of month.
So, the good things about this February. Um... because it's the shortest month, it's nearly over?
Actually, most of the good things about this February did begin with F - highlights provided by the Fringe Festival and PIAF, particularly the ( Read more... )

This weekend (October 11th-12th), I will be a guest at Crime Scene WA, talking about writing when I can tear myself away from the fascinating presentations on forensic science by experts including Professor Simon Lewis, Associate Professor Hadyn Green and Associate Professor Guy Hall, as well as presentations on writing and publishing by GoHs ( Read more... )

I'll be back at the University of Western Australia on Monday, once again teaching first year creative writing. Not picking up any work at Murdoch this semester has had an unexpected bright side, because it's freed me up to teach ten tutes rather than the five I was offered before I went overseas ( Read more... )

(as they say in the classics). More photos to follow, plus TripAdvisor reviews.

True, in the past 48 hours, fantasy artists Patrick Woodroffe and H. R. Giger died, and bullshit artists Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey didn't presented us with an abominable budget that might have inspired Edvard Munch or Francisco Goya... okay, maybe that wasn't a particularly inspiring introduction. I'll try again ( Read more... )