The Hero’s Journey explained brilliantly by puppets

Jun 20, 2013

I first read Joseph Campbell when I heard that Star Wars was constructed by stealing all the best classic mythology ideas and working them together into the monomyth framework. I wanted to understand it. Since then, it’s always informed my writing. I don’t...

Behold the Midnight Echo shiny and the story of a title

Jun 17, 2013

My contributor copies of Midnight Echo Magazine, issue 9, landed in my post box this morning. So shiny. I’m very happy that my story, The Fathomed Wreck To See, is in this one. The issue had a Myths & Legends theme and my story plays with the siren/mermaid...

I won the AHWA Short Story competition!

Jun 10, 2013

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...

365 Shorts – second update

Jun 7, 2013

So, back on December 10th I posted this. In a nutshell, I set myself a challenge to read 365 short stories during 2013. And I expected to fail. I made a small change to the rules, deciding to start my year on December 1st, 2012 and run till November 30th, 2013, to...

SFWA, sexism in SFF and missing the point

Jun 4, 2013

I really wanted to avoid posting about this. So many other people are addressing the issues very well and I don’t really have much to add. If you’re not sure what’s happening, suffice to say that two old guys who are members of the Science Fiction...