The Australian Horror Writers’ Association is celebrating its 10th anniversary by releasing a ‘best of’ Midnight Echo anthology, ‘Dead of Night’, and guess who’s in it? Me! Woo hoo! Midnight Echo is Australia’s premier horror magazine and I was thrilled to be published in it back in 2013 with my…
Listening to a sequence of sounds has no obvious survival value for humans. Yet according to a 2001 study by neuroscientists at the University of Montreal, music has the same effect on our brains as sex and good food. Why? It could be because with music we get whatever emotion…
Who is Martin Livings? Perth-based writer Martin Livings has had over eighty short stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies over the past two decades. His first novel, Carnies, was published by Hachette Livre in 2006, and was nominated for both the Aurealis and Ditmar awards, and has recently…
No matter what your vocation in life, music can inspire you. It can lift and comfort. It can embrace and acknowledge. It can nullify your existential loneliness in a way unique to any other art form. It can unite us and connect us, make us think differently about situations and…
Now that the new year is shaping up, it’s time to set some goals for the year… What do you want to achieve before 2016? What are your priorities? For me, I’ve been planning a new novel – a fantasy this time – which I’d love to finish before 2016.…
As some of you may know, I recently judged the Australian Horror Writers’ Association’s short story and flash fiction competition. It involved reading 154 stories and over 385,000 words. At 12pt Times New Roman font, spaced at 1.5 lines, that was 1,066 pages of writing. Whoa! I’m so glad I…
In January this year, I asked a bunch of writers what their writing goals were for 2013. Was their focus going to be novels, short stories, non-fiction… what? I was interested to see what everyone was planning to achieve, so conducted a poll on my Facebook page. Here are the results…
