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IN SITU Hits the Shelves

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I have a story in an anthology called In Situ and it’s going to be published tomorrow (12 noon New York time on 10th July – which is 2 am Brisbane time on 11th July) so stand by your Amazon “buy” button because this is a collection of stories you won’t want to miss. [...]

New Year’s Day 5 GWC

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May the Fourth be strong with you all. Yes, you’ve noticed, it’s May the 4th and yesterday was the end of the fourth year of my writing career. (By trawling back through the hundreds of posts I’ve written since 4th May 2008, you’ll see that, not only do I mark the date each year, [...]

May the Fourth (3 GWC) Be With You

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Yes, it’s that time of year again. For the many people who weren’t around on May 4th 2008 when I posted my first “hello world” from my brand new writing blog – that is, all of you – May 4th 2008 is the date from which I reckon my writing career began. So as [...]

Free eBooks for Read an eBook Week

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Yes, it’s Read an eBook Week again. And for all you folks who would love to read some ebooks but can’t bring yourself to part with a dollar or two to buy them (you know who you are), now’s your chance to get them at reduced prices or even free at Smashwords.

I don’t [...]

Nothing but Flowers: A collection of post-apocalyptic love stories

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Nothing but Flowers – for the post-apocalyptic lover in your life

I’ve recently been involved in one of Jodi Cleghorn’s whirlwind, all-hands-to-the-pumps publishing adventures. This time it was a collection of short stories called Nothing but Flowers. As with her previous offerings, the writers involved (27 of us in this case) not only contributed [...]

Secret Success in Self-Publishing

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I have a secret identity. No, I’m not going to reveal it. What part of “secret identity” did you not understand? Only four people in the world know it, and two of those found out because I accidentally signed the wrong name on my communications with them! Keeping track of who you are can [...]

Placid Point and the Rules of Self-Publishing

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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 [...]

The Badges of Mediocrity*

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This post is only really relevant to Australian sci-fi fans. The rest of you may pass the time watching TV or cutting your toenails while they read this. I’ll give you a shout when you can come back.

I just saw a tweet from @AustLiterature which reminded me that the 2010 Ditmar awards are [...]

Transhumanity on My Mind

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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 [...]

The Fourth is Strong With Me

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Today, May 4th, is the second anniversary of the commencement of this blog. I started it on my return from a writer’s retreat which I credit for kick-starting my career as a published author. So this anniversary is my day for taking stock of how all that is going.

Here is what I wrote [...]