Publications
(Fiction)
‘The Possibility of Love,’ Polyphony 7, ed Deborah Layne and Forrest Aguirre, through Wheatland Press, 2009
‘Cod Philosophy,’ (reprint) Presto Strange-o, 2009 (TBA)
‘At the Soft Edges of Dawn Flies a Momentary Tree,’ Quantum Genre, ed Vera Ulea, through Crossing Chaos, 2010
‘Cod Philosophy,’ Drabblecast (audio, reprint), 2010
‘How to Select a Durian at Footscray Market,’ Sprawl anthology, through Twelfth Planet Press, 2010
‘Explorations,’ Racy Pages Surprise anthology, 2010
‘Ghost Writer,’ Short and Scary, through Black Dog Books, 2010
‘Staklena devojka gleda nazad’ (The Glass Girl Looks Back, reprint, in translation), Antares, 2009 (available online)
‘Aqua Vita,’ (reprint), LITSNACK, Nov 2009 (available online)
‘Aqua Vita,’ (reprint), Drabblecast (audio, available online), 2009
‘The King’s Edict, Edited,’ Voiceworks, 2009
‘Glass Girl Looks Back,’ (reprint) SFzine.org, (audio) 2009
‘Aqua Vita,’ Voiceworks, May 2009
‘A Pox on All your Houses,’ (reprint) La Idea Fija, 2009 (available online in translation)
‘Drinking Black Coffee at the Jasper Grey Cafe,’ Sybil’s Garage, May 2009
‘The Ringing Sound of Death on the Water Tank,’ (reprint), Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, Brimstone Press, May 2009
‘The Ringing Sound of Death on the Water Tank,’ (reprint), Dead Souls, Morrigan Books, 2009
(Honourable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008)
‘Flower,’ Outshine, 2009
‘From Famine to Feast,’ (reprint) Hermitosis, 2008 (available online)
‘Organ Donor,’ (reprint) Microhorror, 2008 (available online)
‘From Famine to Feast,’ (reprint) Microhorror, 2008 (available online)
‘Parasols,’ ARGOT, 2008 (available online)
‘The Title of this Story,’ Ikarie, 2008
‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’, Shimmer, 2008
‘The Nabokov (Набоков)’, A Field Guide to Surreal Botany. With Ben Peek, 2008
‘The Title of this Story’, Paper Cities, ed E Sedia, 2008
‘A Pox on all Your Houses,’ Dog versus Sandwich, 2008 (available online)
‘Painting Walls in the Town of N–’, Fantasy Magazine, 2008 (available online)
‘A Soul, Touched,’ Behind the Wainscot, 2007 (available online)
‘Return to Sender,’ Mini Mysteries and Kooky Spookies, Pinestein Press, 2007
‘A Slight Hiccup,’ Mini Mysteries and Kooky Spookies, Pinestein Press, 2007
‘A Fright to Remember,’ Mini Mysteries and Kooky Spookies, Pinestein Press, 2007
‘The Boomerang Effect’, Touched by Wonder, Meadowhawk Press, 2007
‘The Ringing Sound of Death on the Water Tank’, In Bad Dreams, ed Mark Deniz and Sharyn Lilley, Eneit Press, 2007
(Honourable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008)
‘On the Day of My Detonation’, Fantasy Magazine #6, 2007
‘From Famine to Feast’, Pseudopod , 2006
‘Bones’, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #24, 2006
‘From Famine to Feast’, FlashSpec Anthology, 2006
‘Cod Philosophy’, FARthing Magazine #2, 2006
‘Why the Balloon Man Floats Away’, Fantasy Magazine #4, 2006
(honourable mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007)
‘Why the Balloon Man Floats Away’, Flesh & Blood Magazine #17, 2006 (magazine defunct before publication)
‘Organ Donor’, Shadow Box, 2005
‘Gloves’, Borderlands issue 4, 2005
(highly commended in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 19)
‘My Brother, The Nectarine’, Tarralla 2004
(Non-fiction)
‘Unlocking the Genre Ghetto,’ WQ Magazine no 191, Dec/Jan 09/10
‘What you don’t know,’ WQ magazine no 189, October 09
‘Never Judge a Property by Its Photo’, True Real Estate Stories, 2006
Sample essays/exams/various other stuff, Insight Publications, 2004-2006
Competitions
‘The Button Collector’
Honourable mention in the 14th Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest
‘Painting Walls in the Town of N–’
Honourable mention in the 12th Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest, 2006
Awards and Achievements
2006 Aurealis shortlist, best fantasy short story, ‘Why the Balloon Man Floats Away’
2007 Ditmar shortlist, best new talent.
Novels:
Downtown: Complete at 100,000 words
People are vanishing in Venice-like Skendgrot, and Vittoria Goritz, antiquities dealer and solipsist, is the prime suspect. Yet Vitti is far from the sole culprit behind the strange disappearances. The city’s militia have been quietly purging the city’s undesirables, and the effects of this are reaching critical mass: the spaces left by the vanished criminals and ne’er-do-wells are being filled by an unstoppable flood of the hazy, semi-corporeal people nicknamed the inchoate. But despite the warnings of the city’s esotericists and natural philosophers, the Mils are planning a mass vanishing, with a disastrous aftermath only Vitti can remedy–if she finally acknowledges the true extent of her ability.
Double Stop
Dark fantasy novel in progress. It’s about a devil’s violin and a haunted orchestra. What’s not to love? Currently approx 20k
Spatterbaum and Zitherbother: Paranormal Reconciliation Agents MG series. First book complete at 72,000 words.
When Fuchsia and Ebony Spatterbaum are told that they are being uprooted from the City to move to a decrepit mansion in Grindlemarsh-shire, their father, Doc, conveniently omits the part about having decided to set up a paranormal reconciliation agency with ex-con childhood friend Sid Zitherbother and his awkwardly behaved (and named) sons, Skull and Geek. However, their encounters with cake-baking poltergeists, orc-infested orchards, and huts on fowls’ legs pale in comparison with the terrifying presence of the Knockers, who steal the happy memories of Grindlemarsh residents, leaving darkened buildings and distraught people in their wake. With the help (and hindrance) of a librarian whose idea of a death-defying act is folding the page of a book, an architect who could be classed a hermit if not for her Facebook addiction, and a Detector unable to find even his car keys, the group descends into the land of the Knockers, leaving a lasting memory of their own.
War of the Kites
For hundreds of years, kite fighting has been an activity of the noble classes, serving as a way to maintain and promote the reputations of those of the older houses, and carving a wedge between such nobles and their more recently elevated counterparts, as well as the population at large. The degree of cunning and skill shown when negotiating the skies is seen as representative of political prowess, and those who have the means to rise to the top in the annual kite fights enjoy unparalleled influence and power on the Council of Nine. For the better part of a century, this supremacy has been maintained by House Edrieau, who have narrowly beaten out the frequent challenges of the newly noble and rank-climbing Pradinoko family.
However, the position of the noble class as a whole is becoming increasingly tenuous against a backdrop of famine brought about by poor harvests, crippled trade routes, and unequal and punitive taxation. And when a young girl with no name and no history appears in the city, rallying the disenchanted youth to work together and build their own kites, the nobles find themselves facing a powerful political schism they had never envisaged.