Thrillercast episode 81 – Flawed protagonists

I used to post here every time a new episode of Thrillercast went up, but I’ve been a bit slack on that front lately. For anyone late to the party, Thrillercast is a podcast hosted by myself and fellow Gryphonwood author, David Wood. It’s a podcast all...

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...

A Killer Among Demons in all its forms

Check out that sweet tome in my grubby paw. It’s my contributor copy of the fantastic anthology, A Killer Among Demons, which features my story, The Beat of a Pale Wing. I’m really proud to be in this book. I read the e-version while I was away a couple of...

Writers write – but fuck the rules

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day.” I bet you’ve read that before, right? I’ve seen it perpetuated so many times, and it really annoys me because it’s absolute bollocks. I bet it scares off many potential writers...

Pacific Rim – Peter Watts says it all

I was going to blog about the awesomeness that is Pacific Rim. Seriously, guys – giant robots smashing the shit out of giant kaiju! What is there not to love about that? I wanted to talk about the amazing effects, the reason it works even though it’s...

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....