Being Prepared
See? This is what I've been afraid of... it's bad enough waking up in the middle of the night from a nightmare in which you're being chased by unrelenting zombies--especially when the neighbours' dogs...
View ArticleIt's so good to be home
What a long two weeks it’s been.I spent the first week in Oxford (that’d be England for those without any geographical yee-haw), catching up with long lost friends and no doubt making a tit of myself...
View ArticleThe Stokers, live on the computer!
For those of you--like me--unable to make it to the States to watch the Bram Stoker Awards this year, you can watch it live at 11.30am Sunday 19 June Australian EST (Sydney time) on Ustream, following...
View ArticleThe Next Big Project...
Something is stirring... When I stepped down as President of the AHWA last September, I needed to get right away from everything and recuperate. Catch my breath. Spend time on my own writing. Read some...
View ArticleDisturbingly Brilliant
Sometimes you read a story and even as you're reading it, you're wishing you could just put down the book and forget the words that have already seared their way into your head but you can't, you...
View ArticleI've Been Kindle-d!
So I finally brought my Kindle and y'know what? I quite like it. Actually, it bloody well rocks.I've sat outside in the sun, feet up and sunnies on, reading on it and the screen with its e-Ink...
View ArticleBack into the Saddle I Go...
Inspired by Jason Fischer's six month writing sabbatical, I think it's time I stopped procrastinating and really, seriously, got back into writing. My shifty sideshow freak muse hasn't been talking to...
View ArticleDance Power!
Ever heard of piezoelectrics? No, it's not some new fandangled static-filled meat pie, but materials capable of converting pressure into electrical energy. Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne...
View ArticleBurning Out as per Clive Barker's Advice
Back in November 2009, the AHWA held an online chat for its members with Clive Barker, one of my literary heroes (The Books of Blook volumes 1-6 are amongst my prized possessions). I asked Clive what...
View ArticleFrightening Critters
I just finished watching the last few episodes of season 5 of Primeval, and they had the return of my favourite beasties, the Future Predators. This got me to thinking about some of the other awesome...
View ArticleThe Amazing Writing Process
Just recently, I found myself stuck on a short story I was writing; I had the idea figured out but I wasn’t sure how to tell the story itself. So I delved into one of the bibles on writing, ‘On Writing...
View ArticleDisturbing Dinner
So do you fancy your (raw) squid dancing when it's dished up to you?No? Me either. But it seems that's one option available these days (although maybe not in Australia as the method is banned). This is...
View ArticleThe Frightningly Awesome Past Part II
Me being the nutty doctor that I am, with a geekish like of all things dinosaur and geologically past (as I've said once before, where better to get wild and crazy ideas for monsters?), I came across...
View ArticleTwo Great Review
I don't post enough reviews of my stories on this rustly ol' blog so I figured now was a good time to start changing that.Innsmouth Free Press has just posted a wonderful review of Macabre, one that...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock is back!
It seems one of Alfred Hitchcock's earliest films, 'The White Shadow,' has been unearthed in the land of the hobbits (that's New Zealand, for those who don't know their hobbits). It was found amongst a...
View ArticleWriting times, Macabre the eBook - plus Spider Goats!
I've had my bum firmly planted in my seat lately, writing away til the wee small hours of the night when it seems I'm the only one left alive in the world. With so much silence surrounding me, the...
View ArticleExciting News
So I have some cool news to announce but I think I'll leave that for a bit and instead share with you one of my favourite childhood memories from TV land. Sesame Street, of all places, back when the...
View ArticleIt's alive (again)! ALIVE (again)!!
Well, it turns out I get bored if I'm not waist-deep involved in the spec-fic scene... So say hello to the new (again) Executive Editor of Midnight Echo magazine.First point of business was to set up...
View ArticleMacabre eBook is now available
Great news!The eBook version of the Australian Shadows Award winning and Bram Stoker nominated Macabre; A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears is now available via Amazon and Smashwords, and is...
View ArticleFinding That Write Balance
The thing I struggle with most when it comes to writing is finding the right balance between short stories and novels. I invest so much of myself into the telling of either that to switch between them...
View ArticleTo self-publish or not to self-publish...
I've been reading a bit lately about the 'new' publishing world, and how self-publishing has become a legitimate way for a writer to become published. It's an interesting time, to say the least, and...
View ArticleThe State of Pro Markets
One of my New Year's resolutions--which actually kicked off last week--is to first and foremost target pro markets (5c/word or more) with my writing from now on (unless there is an anthology I love the...
View ArticleNow This I Like...
David Conyers has just announced on his blog a new anthology he is co-editing, and it's something that has my imagination soaring. The anthology is called Extreme Planets, and as David says:Chaosium is...
View ArticleThe Death of '11 and a Warm Welome to the End of the World
2011 was crap, shit, a big dog's poo and there I was, standing right in the middle of it--in bare feet. My shifty sideshow freak of a muse had gone off with the circus clowns and was enjoying wild,...
View ArticlePack up yer bags...
...cos I'm moving.This blog will no longer be updated as my new one, Screaming Ink, has kicked into life (we had to drag it from the bowels of hell so it's not impressed at being thrust under the...
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