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Murrumbidgee Cycling
I've just finished up a 14 day cycle/camping trip along the banks of a segment of the Murrumbidgee river, say about 600 kilometers in all. Not particularly long for a cycle tour, but longer than anything I've done before. It was good fun, too. I camped at eight spots, did a bit of fishing (not very good at the fishing...), saw some sights and got ( Read more... ) -
Help me identify this bird?
I guess this post is primarily for my Australian bird-watching contacts (yeah, I don't know if I have any either). I just picked up this (possibly) injured bird hopping around my yard. It's about budgie sized, might be a baby. Is has bluey-green and black feathers, the green feathers have a real satiny-sheen to them. It also has a really long beak ( Read more... ) -
14 Years After
I went and re-found my phone data cable, so I thought I'd share a few of the photos I've taken on it recently. Starting with a little tour of the house I grew up in, now that I'm back in the old hometown. Junee, a little rail junction town in the Riverina, inland New South Wales, Australia ( Read more... ) -
A tour beneath Hill 60
So yesterday I did what I've been meaning to do for a while now, and that's explore the old wartime bunker system at Hill 60, just a 40 minute walk from my place. I told myself that I had to go for story research (I plan to write a story set in the tunnels), and while that's true enough, my real motivation was just intense curiosity ( Read more... ) -
Steampunk is...
...many things to many people. The Mad Hatter asked a few people (me included) to share their interpretation on his review blog. Some very talented authors and editors gave some very interesting answers.
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Shock Totem Update: A Review and a Photo
It took a while to get my hands on these copies of issue 2, containing my story 'The Rainbow Serpent'. There was some drama involving a typo in my name in the table of contents (which is reflected in the following review) so Ken, editor in chief of the Shock Totem team, sent me these from the second, corrected batch. Honestly, it's an issue I've ( Read more... ) -
Shock Totem Issue #2
Shock Totem #2 is out, and inside it is my story 'The Rainbow Serpent'. I haven't received my copy yet, so I'm eagerly awaiting the opportunity to read it. The first issue I much enjoyed, and it collected some nice reviews, too.
Links are here for Amazon, and here for the Shock Totem shop.
Oh yeah, and a reminder of the cover.
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First Novel You Ever Read?
Mine was 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'. I can only imagine my eyes just glazed over at entire passages full of unfamiliar words like "infusoria" and "cetaceans", but apparently that didn't matter because I thoroughly enjoyed it. I mean, c'mon, they battled a giant squid and visited Atlantis! I remember reaching the end and thinking "I ( Read more... ) -
I have an accent?
Well, at least according to Beth Wodzinski of Shimmer Magazine, first on her blog and now on Twitter. She's referring to me reading an excerpt from 'Otto's Elephant' from the Clockwork Jungle Book, which is now up at my author spotlight at Shimmer. There's also an interview, and Shweta Narayan's wonderful illustration of my story ( Read more... )
