I’ve never done one of these posts before. Each year when it’s award season I’d kinda just turtle up out of embarrassment. Maybe quietly submit my work on my own steam to places like Aurealis that allow self-submission. Asking for other people to consider my stuff though? That always just felt so weird. Impostor syndrome, …
So I started playing Hades. I’ve been avoiding trying it for a while since it was a roguelike game, and I’m not very good at those: only for it to suddenly be everywhere. I guess the game exited beta. Snapped it up once it popped on the Switch, and I’ve had to play it on …
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 …
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 …
#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 …
Writing Supervisor Russ commands you to try Cradle and Grave. Naow. It’s a book birthday! My new dystopian SF&F novella, CRADLE AND GRAVE, has been released into the wilds, along with Leigh Harlen’s QUEENS OF NOISE. You can pick them up (here) if you haven’t. Read them if they’re your kind of thing: if you …
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 …
Garuda is a short story I wrote that’s been published in Volume 6 of Curiosities, under their World War II edition. It’s inspired by my uncle’s memoir, which he wrote prior to his 80th birthday as a record of our family’s roots and how they survived WWII and the Japanese Occupation. His book is not …
