Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Honourable Mentions long list

I’m all happy again. It’s such an honour when people you respect give kudos to your work. It was great to read on Monday that Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, editors of Ticonderoga Publications’ Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, mentioned four...

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...

Isiah needs a series name

Anyone who’s read RealmShift and MageSign, I need your brainmeats. Well, your brain activity to be specific. If I had to name the series, what do you think would be a good name? There may or may not be more Isiah books to follow this duology, but either way,...

RealmShift giveaway at Goodreads

I’ve been meaning to give this a go for ages, and finally got around to it. Goodreads do this thing where you can register your book for a free giveaway. It’s not a competition or anything complicated – you simply offer a book (print editions only)...

The World’s Top-Earning Authors

Here’s a bit of motivation. Forbes has just released its list of the world’s top-earning authors. It’s encouraging to see genre authors dominating the list. It’s also a reminder that if you work hard at your craft and have a bit of luck, anyone...

A reminder

I’m very close to The End of this book. And that means I’m very close to the end of a trilogy. The first two books are with my agent, and this third will go to her too once it’s polished up all nice and shiny. But I have that last leg to go, that...