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, [...]

Smell of Books (TM) has solved my e-book reader problem. Never again will my books not smell like books!
In writing news, I’m hacking away at Spatterbaum and Zitherbother, which now has a new first chapter and an additional 7k words (oops). It’s coming along nicely, though (if a touch ridiculously).

So I’ve been a bit of a lazy blogger, but in my defence, I’ve been quite the busy Steph. I’m currently going over my proofs for ‘The Ringing Sound of Death on the Water Tank’, which is slated to appear in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3. This story, which is set on my [...]

Tonight I sliced open my little finger whilst trying to open a tin of kidney beans to make some felafel for my boy. My little finger spurted not so little amounts of blood all over my carpet and anything else liable to stain (but none of the washable surfaces, it seemed).
So, testing the absorptive capabilities [...]

Continuing my promise made a few months ago that for the rest of the year I’d only buy second-hand or remaindered books, with purchases based mainly on their covers rather than previous knowledge of the author etc, I picked up a copy of Sarah Addison Allen’s Garden Spells last weekend. The version I picked up [...]