Slow
This blog is even slower than usual, this week. Mostly, it is because last week, during the high winds that have been kicking up in NSW, a very large part of a much larger gum tree broke away and fell...
View ArticleLiving Beneath the Hole in the Ozone Layer
I am always amazed in Australia when I hear people say that climate change isn’t real, or who argue that there’s no point in putting in measures against sources of it, because countries such as China...
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Dead Americans Soundtrack and Storynotes: There is Something So Quiet and...
I began writing ‘There is Something So Quiet and Empty Inside of You That it Must be Precious’ after I read an article about a mosque being burned to the ground. I don’t remember where exactly that...
View ArticleThe Rape Narrative
I came across a discussion earlier about rape in fantasy fiction and how prominent it has become. I couldn’t tell you if it was more, or less than another genre, but it is certainly there. Depending...
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Fantasy Covers Over the Years
My first fantasy novel featured a cover by Larry Elmore. I was about twelve, I think, maybe younger, and the book was a Xmas gift from my mother. The cover was the Penguin release of the original...
View ArticleAuthors Against Literary (or, Authors Who Make You Sad)
I decided that I wanted to be an author early on in life. Before that, I had wanted to be an artist. Before that, an inventor. I was most likely meant to move on to something respectable like...
View ArticleLeviathan’s Blood
I finished edits on Leviathan’s Blood last week and turned it in. The new release date, for those of you keeping up, with be February next year. There will likely be a few tweaks here and there, but...
View ArticleThe Gemmell Awards
It appears that the Godless has picked up a nomination for a Morningstar in the David Gemmell Awards. The Morningstar is for best first fantasy novel, in case you’re curious. The Gemmells are a big...
View ArticleCoetzee’s Three Stories, Money for Boats, and Snowpiercer
Yesterday, I read a tiny collection by J.M. Coetzee called Three Stories. It was put out by an independent press in Australia, Text, who also did his last novel, The Childhood of Jesus, in 2013. I...
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Cover Reveal: The Eternal Kingdom, Book Three of the Children Trilogy
Pretty, isn’t it? If you haven’t read The Godless, or Leviathan’s Blood, you’ll want to. This is the big, crazy end.
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