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The act of writing fiction, for me, exists in the tension between what I want and what the story wants, and the hope that I can recognise...

The second draft is a dangerous place. The first draft is pure invention, racing, stopping, skipping over things. My drafts are series of...

I am teaching a short workshop on the vagaries of the publishing industry and the writing life next weekend. You can book here. It’s...

The Launch at Avid is up on Youtube. And you can listen to me and Bram Presser on Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh's wonderful Radio...

Well the Giant and the Sea is out in the world now. I’ve signed a nice stack of books, we had a wonderful launch at Avid Reader, and a...

It's finally out! Launch is via zoom tomorrow and everyone is welcome. You can book here

My picture book The Giant and the Sea is released tomorrow. We're launching the book the day after. I wrote the first sentence of the...

Here's an interview with Astrid Edwards of the Garret Podcast, talking about The Giant and the Sea, and my novel Day Boy, amongst other...

If you’d like the chance to win this gorgeous framed and signed print from The Giant and the Sea, pre-order a copy from Avid Reader or...

Here's some very exciting news.

My new book The Giant and the Sea, illustrated by the amazing Rovina Cai, is being launched at Avid Reader on the 27th of May. It's a...

A book is a web that becomes a thread, or a series of threads that becomes a rope, which might then open up into a web again. It’s weird...

The last few years I’ve been obsessed with giants. All manner of giants, all manner of potencies in regards to metaphors. There's...

I have a new book coming out. I am deep in another book, with quite a few other stories in various stages of draft. I’ve published nine...

In July I’ll be teaching a workshop at Avid Reader called You Will Fail - The Business of Writing. It will be mainly me talking about my...