If you’re in Adelaide and you’d like to hear me read from Jump and one of the bonus short stories, you’re in luck! February 12 – I’ll be with a cohort of other contributors to the anthology Breaking Beauty (Heather Taylor Johnson, Lynette Washington, Reg Taylor, Rosemary Jackson) at the Hamra Centre Library, which used […]
Helping Antipodean SF celebrate its 200th issue (!!) is a new Twinmaker story revealing Clair’s birth-father’s name, and why he’s out of the picture. Here are the opening lines: Ryder’s hands were deep in the exposed guts of a d-mat booth when he received the message that would change his life. “We’re having a baby.” […]
I’m madly working on film and TV projects at the moment (one of them Twinmaker-related so I don’t feel too bad for neglecting the blog) but there’s always time to listen to good music. Satie Slowly is Philip Corner’s double CD of one of my favourite composer’s beautiful solo piano works. Clair would love it, […]
You could call this post “Old Ideas for a New Tale”, because what I’m going to talk about is a story that turns 21 this year, yet contains the seed for the ending of my latest novel. There will be SPOILERS for the conclusion of Crashland (aka Crash in Australia), so if you haven’t read […]