Just for fun, I'm reposting my writer friend LJ Hayward's writing process blog post, which she wrote back on 11 July, after I tagged her. And a warning - her book Blood Work, and the sequel Demon Dei, are seriously fastmoving and clever and funny and fingernail-bitingly suspenseful. And, unlike most horror/suspense writers, she REALLY knows about ( Read more... )

The same Writing Process blog hop that's hopping through the fields of Australian writing has been bopping across the USA - and American spec fic writer and poet Wendy Rathbone's answers were fascinating. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Over to Wendy - who blogs somewhere in the Left Dimension. Check out her blog!

1. Why do you write what ( Read more... )

The estimable Jonathan Shaw, to whom I will always be grateful for accepting two of my earliest stories ("Bertie" and "Alistair" - both ghost stories, of a sort, and both for The School Magazine), has reviewed The Duties of a Cat. Among other things, he says,

"Like cats themselves, the poems can be charming and dangerous in the same breath."

But ( Read more... )

These days, we writers are like bunnies, blog-hopping hither and thither and yon at the drop of a carrot. I'm doing the hop now, after being tagged for the “My Writing Process” blog hop by the excellent George Ivanoff, bon vivant, raconteur and author from Melbourne. He blogs here on his own site, and at Boomerang BooksSo, what are my answers to ( Read more... )

[This is an updated version of a post that I wrote last year for Marge Simon's Dark Poets column in the Horror Writers Association (International) newsletter, reused with Marge's kind, dark permission ( Read more... )

Somewhat before the crack of dawn this morning I was interviewed on 1233 ABC Radio Newcastle for their Story Box series, which I'm sorry to say I'd never heard of - they always take place before 7am, which is NOT my best time of day. Much coffee was needed. It's life-story, not tell-me-a-story ( Read more... )

Last night, the wonderful Pitt Street Poetry held a "soft launch" at their Christmas party from multi-award-winning Mark Tredinnick's brand-new BLUEWREN CANTOS, and for my equally new THE DUTIES OF A CAT. They commissioned six glorious cat pictures from artist Michael Robson - and three of them are taken from photos of my very own Felix the ( Read more... )

I'm chuffed - OK, I'm DELIGHTED - that my poem "Power Men" is up at Strange Horizons right now!!! Please feel free to read it for free!

And here it is!

No, I haven't lost my mind. This isn't a post about a real diet. "New Miracle Celebrity Weight Loss Diet" is the title of my H.G. Wells tribute story included in the June Penumbra e-mag.

It might be worth pointing out that my story "A Moveable Feast" in Amanda Pillar's lovely bloodthirsty Bloodstones anthology (from the delightful Ticonderoga ( Read more... )

Now It Can Be Revealed - I'm in the process of signing a contract with the extremely lovely Pitt Street Poetry for a slim illustrated volume of my cat poems. Many thanks to my leo life-mate, Russell, and to my smaller and furrier muse who mews, Felix.

(And, of course, we MUST have a gratuitous cat photo.)


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