A few weeks back I blogged about the resemblance that the cover of Steven Amsterdam’s book Things We Didn’t See Coming bore to Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller. In the name of completeness, here’s another cover that fits quite nicely with the other two. It’s The Broken Teaglass, by debut author [...]

Some random cool stuff, just because:
Art Vend

An installation called Art Vend will be running as part of Melbourne’s Big West Festival. Pitched as a ‘mobile gallary’, Art Vend will comprise a modded vending machine that sells miniature works of art (including some of my stories, oh you lucky people). It’ll be placed at Footscray station, [...]

My contributor copies of WQ (Writing Queensland, the young writers issue) arrived yesterday. It’s a rather spiffy looking magazine, with neat two-colour highlights, heavy stock paper, and a generally sexy design.
My article is on ‘Writing what you don’t know’, because, let’s face it, I’m a bit of a pro at doing so (there is, [...]

Apparently today is World Vegetarian Day. Hooray! Of course, it’s Vegetarian Day every day in my world, but still. . .
Anyway, to get you into the vegetarian theme, here’s a youtube video of two of my vegetarian friends sacrificing a watermelon (in lieu of the traditional goat) for this year’s daisin festival in Nepal.