My silly short story ‘Cod Philosophy’ has gone up on great podcast zine Drabblecast. Drabblecast also featured my equally silly short story ‘Aqua Vita‘ last year.

The cover for the anthology Scenes for the Second Storey, which will be published by Morrigan Books in September, has been revealed:

Here’s the spiffy ToC:
Dream Machine - David Conyers
She Said - Kirstyn McDermott
The Blind Man - Felicity Dowker
I’ve Seen The Man - Paul Haines
The Desert Song - Andrew McKiernan
Home - Martin Livings
It’s All Over - [...]

Alisa Krasnostein at Twelfth Planet Press has picked up my short story ‘How to Select a Durian at Footscray Market’ for the forthcoming anthology Sprawl. You can check out the (quite impressive) full ToC at her blog.

My short story ‘Cod Philosophy’, first published in the now-defunct UK magazine Farthing, will be podcast by audio-zine Drabblecast. This is my second sale to the zine–my short story ‘Aqua Vita’ featured mid last year.

A quick check of the trackbacks to this website has informed me that ‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’, which originally appeared in Shimmer, has been republished in translation in the Serbian blog-zine Antares.

The Racy Pages Surprise anthology has picked up my 100 word drabble, ‘Explorations’. This story was inspired by Jono’s tendency to leave his jeans and socks strewn about the house. Fortunately, he’s in charge of the washing, so I’ll forgive him.

Aqua Vita has been reprinted in the new e-zine LITSNACK. This story first appeared in print form in the youth magazine Voiceworks, and in audio form on Drabblecast.

The ebook version of Paper Cities (through Senses Five Press) has gone live on Amazon. It’s a great collection containing short stories by authors such as Kaaron Warren, Ben Peek, Jay Lake, Cat Sparks, and, er, me.

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, [...]

My children’s story ‘Ghostwriter’ will appear in Short and Scary, a charity anthology published by fabulous Australian children’s publisher Black Dog Books. Proceeds from the book, which should be launched in February, will go to the Big Brother Big Sister organisation.