Midnight Echo 10 cover reveal

Remember last week when I posted about how happy I was to have not one but two stories in the next issue of Midnight Echo? Well, they’ve now revealed the fantastic Vincent Chong cover and isn’t it a thing of beauty? And there’s my name, right there...

Midnight Echo 10, featuring me. Twice.

Well, this is a first for me and one that requires double Snoopy dancing. You all know by now how much a fan I am of Midnight Echo magazine. It’s the official magazine of the Australian Horror Writer’s Association and one of the classiest glossy mags on...

2012 storySouth Million Writers Award notable stories

Well, this was a very pleasant surprise today, and many thanks to Josh Melican who pointed it out to me on my Facebook page. The news came via the website of Jason Sanford, one of the judges of the storySouth Million Writers Award, and the news is that one of my...

Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror Recommended Reading

I’m doing my Snoopy dance. Ticonderoga Publications have just released their Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror Recommended Reading List and I feature on it four times. Four! That’s so cool. I’ve mentioned before how proud I am that...

CSFG’s Write-a-Book-in-a-Day effort, 2013

I’m not personally involved in this project, but I am a proud member of the CSFG, so I’m sharing this on their behalf. Please support Paediatrics at the Canberra Hospital (PatCH) by sponsoring CSFG’s Write-a-Book-in-a-Day entry in 2013. Last year, through...

I won the AHWA Short Story competition!

Well, I actually co-won in a dead heat with Zena Shapter. The Australian Horror Writers’ Association (AHWA) runs a competition every year for both short stories (1,000 to 8,000 words) and flash fiction (up to 1,000 words). You may remember that last year I was a...