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Short stories come and go, they are read and forgotten, and a few, such a tiny few, live on a little through awards, or republication. My...

Brent Wilson and I have been holding this pretty closely, but our graphic novel Frog, Log, and Dave Almost Save the Day is coming out in...

A person stares at a big rock of an idea blocking their way Last year I was (am and will be for next year at least) working on a book...

How is this year drawing to a close? I've been so busy, but the clock is running down. By the end of it I should have a big living...

The Stone Road had a deal in the US and Australia over the last day or so, and it was nice to see a bump in sales. Hopefully the book...

Halfway through the year, and my current WIP is finally starting to talk to its component bibs and bobs. I just wrote a scene that made...

To celebrate the paperback release of The Stone Road this month, I'm putting up the short story that was the seed of the book. I think I...

I’d forgotten how good index cards are at untangling stories. I’ve got a fair chunk of a new novel written – around 15,000 words – and...

The final iteration of the Stone Road is coming out late April with US paperback edition. I am so delighted that it has managed an...

I’m going through my notebooks, around thirty years’ worth of them, finding the ideas that flared and the ones that didn’t. It’s amazing...

There’s always a point where I must force myself to stop with a novel. Where I put the rock down and pass it on to someone else. It’s not...

January was a blur, mostly parenting, discovering that new to us gap between daycare and school starting. But I managed a little writing,...

Another birthday comes around. Fifty treated me well. I wrote a lot, did some amazing work with Brent Wilson which we’ll start talking...

One of the great joys of living with a novel* or some other story project over a long time are the characters. These simulacrums of...

There’s nothing mystical about writing it’s the most prosaic activity at its heart. You put one word after another, and you hope to God...

Today is Day Boy’s US trade paperback publication day. That book has done far better than I ever expected. The Text Australian edition...

The Stone Road is on the Ditmar preliminary ballot, which is very exciting. I've never won a Ditmar, but this is my fourth time on the...

There's been so much fun with Mr Impoppable lately, some podcast chats, a workshop I taught on the weekend, and even a story that I...

Last weekend Brent Wilson and I launched Mr Impoppable into the world. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone that made it along, and to...

I won an Aurealis Award on the weekend (as you do), wrote a wholly inadequate acceptance speech (I didn't expect to win) and leapt about...