A New Year A New Post - or bad, indulgent poetry

Well here we are a new year and all that - already it is a week old and I have not posted anything. What is up with that? How are folks liki...

The Last Post... well for the year at least.

Here we are folks the year almost at an end, big projects up ahead: Lamplighter 's release imminent, Book 3 to finish, further books to ...

I have no idea what to entitle this...

Winter was asking: "...can we submit sketches for the character studies? Or will it all be text?" A most excellent idea. Indeed,...

Merry Thing!

It has been a most excellent year and I thank you all who have put your thoughts here and entered into the dialogue - a very healthy and he...

A very sneaky preview indeed... Chapter 1 of LAMPLIGHTER!

Just in time for Christmas I bring you... the first chapter of MBT 2 Lamplighter , ready for you to download from... HERE! My word, I sur...

UK Cover for Book 2

Here is the front cover of the UK Edition of Lamplighter . Lovely, lovely, lovely; I am liking it a whole lot - it has a wonderful flavour ...

SA Great 2007 Rising Stars

Not too long ago I was honoured with an inclusion in the SA (South Australia) Great 2007 Rising Stars program. It included a whole range of...

The origin of a word

I received an email query recently from a certain Beverley McKay : "I have just finished reading Monster Blood Tattoo and have a questi...

A galley - I have the proof.

Yesterday I received from Tim Travaglini - my US publisher-man - what in the US publishing industry is called a galley (here in Oz we calle...