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Home From The Front

Well, I feel I am no longer a sci-fi novice. I’m just home from the World Science Fiction Convention, WorldCon 68, and I have the post-con exhaustion to prove it. I met up with my old Orbiteer buddies (the guys who started all this for me) and got the outstanding news that yet another [...]

September 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 3 comments

The Shouter and the Chanter in Alien Skin

Hot on the heels of my last publication announcement (see below) I bring you ‘The Shouter and the Chanter’ which is out now in Alien Skin.

I very much enjoy writing and reading flash fiction and this is the second time I have had a piece appear in Alien Skin (thanks guys). People often [...]

December 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 2 comments

All The Way: Out Now in The Future Fire

Future Fire #18: More firsts

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 [...]

December 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 5 comments

Revealing My Obsessions

I ran the complete set of posts from this blog through the Wordle program. Wordle calculates word frequencies, translates them to physical sizes, and uses this information to lay out the most frequent words in interesting ways. The image below, therefore, shows you just what I talk about most in this blog. If you [...]

November 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 10 comments

The Earth Ship in Print

'The Earth Ship' never looked so good.

My short story,  ‘The Earth Ship’, is available now in a new anthology from Absent Willow Publishing, modestly titled, ‘The Best Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction of 2009‘. Copies can be had from the publisher or on Amazon. The Absent Willow Review, which first published ‘The [...]

October 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Absent Willow Review | One comment

“Swan Song” Hits the Streets

Concept Sci-fi Magazine Issue #6

The Concept Sci-fi Magazine 2009 Short Story Competition Special Edition is now avaialable online. It contains just three stories, the winner, “Bringer of War” by Iain Cairns, and the two runners-up; “Volume Control” by Matthew Fazakerly, and “Swan Song” by yours truly. Download it now and have a [...]

August 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 2 comments

What Price Vanity?

Can you hear its siren call?

I’ve been trying to decide lately at what point being published for no fee counts as vanity publishing. A few of my recent publications have been in non-fee-paying magazines. I sent my work to them because I thought it would be an appropriate first step on the [...]

June 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 2 comments

Building a Career Backwards

Just when I thought I was being smart and finally getting somewhere, I meet some fellow writers and have my confidence shaken.

I nearly made it to a Vision Writers’ Group meeting in Brisbane last week. I travelled 250 km especially for the event and then got the time of the meeting wrong! (Which [...]

March 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 6 comments