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Needed – Beta Readers!

Recently, I’ve been working on a novella titled The Reclaimers. It is a fantasy, sitting at about 26,000 words. I’ve reached the stage where I’d like to recruit a couple of beta readers.

What I’m looking for is a …

Striking Twice (a story)

Time travel stories have always bugged me a bit. Especially the part where essentially the same people wander around changed timelines except with nothing altered except slightly different personalities. I mean come on – wait five seconds to have sex …

The Peppa Pig dilemma

Let me ask you two questions: Are you a parent with children that were young in the last decade? Are you a science fiction fan?

If you answered yes to both questions (1), then I guarantee you that there …

Publication – Narration Blues

Some excellent news over the summer, when Ion ‘Nuke’ Newcombe, the editor of  Antipodean SF , picked up one of my flash fiction pieces, called ‘Narration Blues’.

‘Narration Blues’ will feature in issue 226 of Antipodean SF, due out …

Welcome to 2017

Hi all,

After a long hiatus, I’m firing up the blog again. I’ve been thinking about what kind of content might be of interest, and will be making a few changes that I’ll roll out over the next few weeks.…

Happy holidays

Hi all,

Whether you’re celebrating a significant event in the existence of your particular brand ofall-powerful-sky-dwelling-wish-granter or worshiping at the slightly more secular prawns-and-presents-with-family-and-friends alter, or even participating in the insidious scheme codenamed “Get Them Hooked On Presents and …

Monthly roundup culture consumed – November 2016

Hope everyone has had a great November, and you’re not freaking out about how close Christmas is all of a sudden.

Books

As foreshadowedlast month I finishedRevengerby Alistair Reynoldsduring November. This is an excellent book. Set …

Make Mine a Macchiato (a story)

I wanted to try something a little away from science fiction as well as something a little silly. ‘Make Mine a Macchiato‘ was the result. It was also the first time I showed a story in progress to a…

Monthly roundup culture consumed – October 2016

I’m a bit late with my October roundup – many apologies.

Books

I finishedthe first book in Tansy Rayner Robert’s Mocklore series,Splashdance Silver – more detailed review to come for the Australian Women Writers reading challenge.

For anyone …

In which I am offline for a couple of weeks

Hi all.

A very boring post this time around, just to say that I’ll be offline for a couple of weeks. Small family holiday (huzzah!) will mean that I’m not accessing computers enough to compose sensible length blog posts.

Hey, …