I’m currently working through my third round of revisions for Downtown, and I’m finding that the re-writing and (and new writing) is feeling somewhat akin to valiantly trying to ride my bicycle up Brunswick Road (a small, but still vicious, cousin of Mt Everest) in the rain.  With flat tyres.  And no pedals.

I’m [...]

Shimmer Vol 3, issue 1 (spring 2008) has been released.  It contains my story ‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’.

I’ve made it through the second draft of Downtown, and am now readying myself for the adding in of the bunch of scenes and various things that assist in continuity and so forth that will comprise this next round of edits.  I swept through the last twenty thousand words or so in a few days, [...]

I spent the day in bed reading, as I’m wont to do when I’m all sniffly and sick.  I finished off M. T. Anderson’s Octavian Nothing, which was mostly brilliant (the book, not my finishing it*), and started on Charles de Lint’s Widdershins, because de Lint is, like Haruki Murakami, perfect sick-in-bed light reading.
I’m about [...]