I always knew I’d one day write novels. But first came poetry and short stories. I wrote about my first ever published poems over here. My first ever short story success was with a story about a tortoise, which won me the school writing competition for prose in Year 11…
Invading aliens with advanced technology may make us obsolete, but not all of us want to be, and not all of us will succumb as easily to hopelessness as others… My short story ‘Not Today’ is kicking off my 2023 publications with this horrifying short story of control and despair.…
Publication day! My story ‘The Kind of Man’ has been published in Volume I Issue 3 of ‘Welkin’, a magazine of fantastic literature, meticulously edited by J. McKenzie Nalley and beautifully illustrated by Zuzanna Kwiecien. This issue is a special issue of horror and dark fantasy, and I’m thrilled to…
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…
Today I’m excited to announce the publication of my short story Let the Tempest Hold Me Down through Sci Phi Journal – click the link at end of this post to read it for free! Sci Phi Journal is an online science fiction and philosophy magazine that ‘explores questions of life,…
As regular readers will know, there’s a lot of practical writing advice, secrets and encouragement on this blog. So today I thought I’d open the vault and create a free ‘Author Writing Toolkit’ from some of fantastic posts I’ve collated over the years. Even regular writer-readers should find something useful…
Welcome to the final post in my series on short story editors. Thank you for all of your encouraging comments on Twitter and Facebook – I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed this series! Thanks too for all the nice comments you’ve made about this blog. Your compliments make it all worthwhile!…
