Midnight Echo 9 cover revealed, featuring me

Check out the awesome cover for issue 9 of Midnight Echo magazine. That’s some great, creepy work by Mahdesigns. This issue, edited by Geoff Brown, is horror stories themed around myths and legends. It features my story, The Fathomed Wreck To See. I’m...

Aurealis and Shadows Awards finalists for 2012 announced

It’s award season again and the first couple of shortlists are out. The Aurealis Awards for fantasy, sci-fi and horror, and the Australian Shadows Awards for horror. All the finalist lists for both of these are really strong – it’s great to see so...

Urban Occult has landed

I got this today, my contributor’s copy of Urban Occult from Anachron Press. It includes my story, A Time For Redemption, about a young university student who discovers an amulet that allows him to stop time. He sees a way to get back with the girl he lost. Of...

Happenings in the world of the Warrior Scribe

Halfway through March already? Seriously, what the shit, time? It’s been a strange and hectic year so far, for many reasons, but through it all I’m steadfastly, some would say stubbornly, persisting with being a writer. Some might even suggest I was...

Paul Haines, one year gone, never forgotten

Paul Richard Haines 8 June 1970 – 5 March 2012 It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since Paul Haines died. Husband, father, friend, mentor and so much more, and exemplary writer. I still miss him terribly and the Australian scene is not the same...

365 Shorts – 1st Quarter update

So, back on December 10th I posted this. In a nutshell, I set myself a challenge to read 365 short stories during 2013. And I expected to fail. Well, bizarrely, I’m actually ahead of schedule at the moment. I know, I’m as surprised as you are. You’re...