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Placid Point and the Rules of Self-Publishing

Over the past year or so, wisdom has been accumulating in the blogsphere about who should self-publish, what they should self-publish, and when. The advice seems to amount to this: If no-one else is going to publish it (because, say, it was commercially published once but is now out of print, or it’s new but [...]

Transhumanity on My Mind

I’ve become obsessed with a place in my imagination. It’s called Placid Point and it is a space station, packed to the gunwhales with computers, and inhabited by a huge number of uploaded human minds. It started life on Earth before moving into Earth orbit, then to solar orbit (at L1) and then around another [...]

A Christmas Present for You

This will be the last post on this blog before Christmas. I can’t promise you that it’s the last post of the year, but for now I’m signing out. My daughter’s arriving the day after tomorrow and there’s lots to do before then. I want to leave you with a little Christmas present though. My [...]

All The Way: Out Now in The Future Fire

With all this frantic editing and book publicising going on, I forgot to mention something very important to me. My short story, ‘All the Way’ has just been published in The Future Fire. If you don’t know this magazine, you should probably download some of their PDF editions and have a browse. The Future Fire [...]

More Hope than you can shake a stick at

Remember that four-part magazine I told you about – put together by speculative fiction fans and full of stories and artwork donated by Australian writers and artists? Well, the first edition has now been published. All the money raised by the sale of this magazine will go towards the disaster relief fund for the survivors [...]