Hey, Teenager Of The Year!

The blogosphere is a wild and wonderful place for writers, full of surprises and extraordinary souls. One of them is fifteen-year-old Steph Bowe who is writing two novels, running the YA Blogosphere (see Favourite Links) and interviewing authors like me at Hey, Teenager Of The Year. And she still eats off the kids menu at [...]

And they’re racing!

Everyone thinks I’ve been on holidays, but really, I’ve been on writer’s boot camp, training for a guest spot on Writing Races, the Australian Writer’s Marketplace online forum. I thought it was an inspired bit of fun aimed at getting the procrastinators up and writing, if only for an hour, between 8.00 and 9.00 pm [...]

Book lovers hit back

Dymocks must be reeling from the backlash to its mass email to book lovers urging members to sign a petition to remove current copyright protections on Australian books. Seems this large franchisee business didn’t know that many of its ‘book lovers’ are members of the writing and publishing community, and are united in their opposition [...]

Children’s authors spit the dummy

Brisbane children’s authors have spat the dummy over proposed changes to copyright laws and are taking their protests to the streets after Easter. The last straw for the writing community was a mass email sent out to “book lovers” by major franchise business Dymocks, urging people to sign a petition asking for current copyright protections [...]

Sneak preview – The Lonely Dead (a w-i-p)

Detective Nick Fardoulys stared at the pretty feet; the immaculate toenails painted a light metallic brown. His baby sister would have been able to identify the colour immediately from her once-unlimited palette of words. She had always insisted that only old farts like him wore brown; young pains-in-the-arse like her, apparently wore cappucino or pewter, [...]