Write the Fight Right coming to Canberra

My workshop all about writing effective fight and action scenes is coming to the ACT Writers’ Centre in Canberra. This is the full day (10am-4pm) version of the workshop, so we get to talk a lot more in depth about stuff and do a little bit of writing too....

A Killer Among Demons available now

You may remember that I’ve been talking up this great anthology from Dark Prints Press. I’m so pleased to be one of ten authors included in this anthology of supernatural/paranormal crime. I read it last week while I was on holiday (as I got an advance...

It’s my lumbar, Jack, and I’m okay

Hey fellow writers and other desk jockeys. Do you sit in a chair like this? See that little curved net thing in the back of my chair? It’s a lumbar support. It cost less than ten bucks from Office Works and has an elastic strap that slips over the back of the...

My holiday reading

I’ve recently had a week’s holiday in the sun. The best thing about holidays is the unfettered reading time. Of course, seeing another place, spending quality time with my wife, snorkeling amazing coral reefs and all that was fantastic too and it rates up...

Happy shiny story prize

You may remember that I recently (and very happily) announced that my story, It’s Always the Children Who Suffer, won the Australian Horror Writers’ Association short story contest. I co-won, in fact, with Zena Shapter. As well as the story being published...