Finally got around to trying the Yakuza games, because Steam was selling a bundle (Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, and Yakuza Kiwami 2) for $90. The game makes me miss visiting Japan: particularly Tokyo and Osaka, where the 2 stories are set. It’s been fun moving Kiryu and Majima around, getting them to go to soba …
This game blew me away. Ghost of Tsushima is one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played. It’s a visual feast with three separate biomes, changeable weather, gorgeous scenery that gives you a whole ‘nother level of immersion. It’s so beautiful that for me it forgives some of the game’s little flaws. Though yes, …
Was floored to hear that my short story submission to Avatars.Inc, Life in Achar, was the winning Community Choice story! You can read it [ here ], and I hope you like it. It’s about two of my favourite things: conservation and food. Avatars.Inc sent me a ton of swag as prizes, still stunned at …
SOME THINGS TO READ Amy McQuire | We Must Bear Witness to Black Deaths in Our Own Country Ibram X. Kendi | The American Nightmare | The Atlantic James Baldwin | How to Cool It | Esquire Jamil Smith | American Plague | Rolling Stone Nadia Latif and Leila Latif | We Know What it …
#SixBooksSixPeople! I’ve talked about these books briefly over on Twitter, but they need more love: David B. Berman | Do Good Design: I first heard David speak when I was volunteering for the agIdeas design conference in Melbourne, and it was a revelation: he talked about the importance of accessible design. Some of his comments …
The previous post might have been a little grim. Leading up to the home stretch for CRADLE AND GRAVE’s kickstarter (which you can still support here), I’ve been considering a list of nonfiction articles to write that might be relevant to my novella, but I think everyone’s looking for a bit of breathing space right …
Well, this year sure escalated quickly. A long, long time ago in November 2014 (I feel like I’ve aged a million years since 2014), I took a third crack at writing an original book-length story for Nanowrimo. It didn’t get far, because my completion record for Nanowrimo tends to be quite hit and miss at …
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I have a new book out this year with Neon Hemlock! It’s a post-apocalypse mutagenic city survival-horror adventure, a Fallout Weird Western. Writing it was a lot of fun – this is one of my favourite genres – and the publishing process so far has been a blast. I’ve got a couple of Twitter panels …
That was the view from my window one morning earlier in January, in Melbourne, Australia. Air levels overnight were the most hazardous in the world. The air’s improved in the city for now, but some outer areas are still registering poor air quality, and despite the abrupt drop in news coverage – even local news …
I’m still fighting off the remnants of a cold and a bad allergic reaction, so this might be more of a rambling post than usual. Yes, I have watched the star war, and yeah, that was a bit of a mess, wasn’t it? I confess, my main interest in the latest Star Wars films can …
