Highlights: HUGE crowd on Saturday, cosplay better than ever, buying 'Shiny' Firefly t-shirt and the deluxe boxed Kimba DVD set at 30% off. Catching up with the Supa-crew. Research trip to the Minx Club after the cocktail party. Quinny suffering on behalf of my research. Ruth's costumes. Singing 'Kimba the White Lion' theme song with Kylie Chan to ( Read more... )

Over at my YA website things are afoot. Pop over there to meet my new site manager Bec Stafford. She’s going to be contributing and managing this site for me. She’s a great gal who you’re gonna love. Here’s a bit about her:

Bec Stafford grew up in Brisbane. She has a B.Ed and an M.Litt (Visual Arts) and is currently completing her MA (Writing, ( Read more... )

Who is your favourite alien in SF? Mind Meld asks a bunch of writers ( Read more... )

Graham Storrs is the author of TimeSplash, a good old-fashioned time travel thriller. This post is part of the TimeSplash blog tour running from 16th of February to the 5th of May. To find out more about the book, characters, Graham, publication and inside information about writing the story, go to the TimeSplash website and check out the blog tour ( Read more... )

I’ve got a few online gigs coming up that you might want to fly by. On April 8th, I’ll be a guest at the Book Chick City site.

Also, in April I’ll be giving a guest post at Walker of the Worlds for his SF appreciation month.

I’ll be sending Trans Space to my editor tomorrow. Bar small changes and proofing, I think the bulk of it is done. I can’t ( Read more... )

I've added the TISF review of Mirror Space to the website's Podcast page. I love listening to Keith's summary of the story so far. I wish he could write my synopses for me ( Read more... )

Direct from the Nightshade Books catalogue, here are the release dates.

Dark Space - October 2010

Chaos Space - April 2011

Mirror Space - August 2011

Transformation Space - December 2011

And here’s the Nightshade Blurb:

The Sentients of Orion is a wide screen, epic space opera. Deep Space chronicles of the intrigues and conflicts surrounding a ( Read more... )

I’ll be signing at the Angus and Robertson Northlakes store this Saturday 10 am - 12 pm. The shop is too small to fit more than one author at a time, so when Kylie and I were there last time we had to sit out in the corridor. This time I’m returning solo so I can sit inside the shop. I’d love to see some familiar Northside faces, or meet some new

I'm neither here nor there about 'things that run in families'. Never thought about it a great deal. But my Grandfather, my sister and my brother are all writers. And now my twin nephews have their first book coming out. Call it genetics or a 'cluster effect', but there's got to be something going on there!

Anyway, their book is rather special. It's ( Read more... )

Orbit have given me a release date of May 6th, 2010 for e-books of the Sentients of Orion and Parrish Plessis series. For those of you who’ve been asking about them for a while, go forth and crash the download limit :)

Trans Space is nearly a KO. About ten days left on it and then goodbye to all those characters (sniff) who I’ve spent five years ( Read more... )