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.

Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia and published by Senses Five Press, has been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award.

Dead Souls, through Morrigan Books, is now available for pre-order.
The anthology contains my story ‘The Ringing Sound of Death on the Water Tank’, which first appeared in In Bad Dreams and later in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror #3. Cool people like Ramsey Campbell and Kaaron Warren are also featured.

So a little bit of sleuthing after finding out that I’ve had heaps of hits from South America reveals that ‘A Pox on All Your Houses’ has gone live at La Idea Fija. This story first appeared in Dog vs Sandwich.

The new episode of Drabblecast has gone live, and contains my story ‘Aqua Vita’ (with theme music and sound effects!).  The episode also includes stories by Jeremiah Tolbert and Michelle Howarth.

Drabblecast will republish ‘Aqua Vita’ in audio format. This story first appeared in Voiceworks.

Voiceworks has bought ‘The King’s Edict, Edited’, which will appear in the upcoming postscript-themed issue. My short story ‘Aqua Vita’ also appeared in the previous issue.

Sybil’s Garage 6 will be* launched today at Wiscon. It contains my story ‘Drinking Black Coffee at the Jasper Grey Cafe’.

*future tense used due to the US lagging well behind Australia in terms of time zones and Tim Tam availability

‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’ will appear in audio format at SFzine.org. This piece originally appeared in Shimmer.