The UK Zine New Fairy Tales has launched its first issue. The issue contains my short story ‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’, which was first published in Shimmer a few years ago. It’s a beautiful looking little webzine, so go and have a look. An audio version is also forthcoming, so keep an eye (and [...]

The Black Dog Books anthology Short and Scary is now available. It contains my short story ‘Ghost Writer’, as well as work by Shaun Tan, Andy Griffiths, Carole Wilkinson, Terry Denton, and many others.

Wheatland Press, publisher of the fabulous Polyphony series has put out a call for pre-orders for the forthcoming Polyphony 7 in order that it might go ahead with the whole printing and publishing bizzo. The ToC includes my short story ‘The Possibility of Love’, which is probably my favourite out of all of the stuff [...]

From an article I was reading for work:
“According to Bandura (1994), there are four underling factors related to the development of self-efficacy: mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasion, and emotional states.”
Somehow I’m unsurprised that underling factors would be related to self-efficacy.
In novelly news, I remain in continued agent/publisher limbo for Downtown, but [...]

As usual, from The Age:

‘Black Saturday’ cops on sex chargeMEX COOPER 1:38pm
SA policemen believed to have been investigating bushfires charged over sex attack.

In writing news, I have a few short stories on the go and almost ready to be sent out, and I’ve cracked 50k on Spatterbaum and Zitherbother, the MG novel, so [...]

The October issue of Ikarie (Czech Republic) has been released.  It contains my story ‘The Title of this Story’, which first appeared in Paper Cities through Senses Five Press.  This issue also contains fiction by Susanna Clarke.

Shimmer Vol 3, issue 1 (spring 2008) has been released.  It contains my story ‘The Glass Girl Looks Back’.