Great short story collections

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of short fiction. While I love to read (and write) a novel, I find the shorter yarn to be a unique art form. In many ways, with genre fiction (and especially horror) the short story or novella is often a better format...

All That Matters – new fiction

I’m pleased to have this new short fiction called “All That Matters” published in The Saturday Paper. For one thing, it’s good when a genre writer like me gets to be published in the mainstream press, but it’s also good because this is...

A Star Has Died – Brand new short story

A little while ago I was approached to write a short story for an anthology called “Side Quests”. It was a cool concept, with all the contributing authors writing stories featuring characters from their existing series. I thought it was a great opportunity...

Short story writers I recommend

I recently did a video Skype chat with the wonderful Joanna Penn, of The Creative Penn website. Jo is also an accomplished thriller writer, but in this interview (which I’ll link here when it’s posted to YouTube in a few weeks) we were talking about the...

CI-A, Me and the Battle of the Worlds

I was looking through some old stuff my mum had saved and discovered a bunch of old exercise books. Most of it is pretty rubbish, appalling “religious education” that was nothing but Christian indoctrination and so on. In truth, I always hated school,...

Ticonderoga to publish my first short fiction collection, Crow Shine

So this is news that makes me happier than a drunk in a brewery. Ticonderoga Publications, one of Australia’s premier presses, is going to publish my first collection of short fiction in September. It’s going to be called Crow Shine, and just look at that...