A nice twofer, with Wolf In The Fold accepted by the Strange Lucky Halloween anthology, (Whortleberry Press) and my story, The Third Floor out in the same publisher’s current anthology, Dandelions of Mars: Tributes to Ray Bradbury. As well, the latest Tales of the Talisman (Volume VIII, issue 4 from Hadrosaur Productions,) carried my weird …
Category: My writing updates
Collection finished
I finally finished editing my collection of SF/F Cat stories (Katalagein) with UK Editor Stuart. It was a pleasant exercise, he’s not only a good editor, I found him very easy to work with and it was he who suggested the title. Katalagein – a South African term which is connected to compassionate justice – ‘sacrifice, …
My 30th Book is now out.
I’m delighted to announce that my 30th book, a Young Adult standalone novel entitled Flying Free is now out from Sky Warrior Books. It’s set in New Zealand and features Icarus, a Haast’s eagle. The cover was done by my talented friend Sharman Horwood (who also did the cover for our collaborated alternate history, Queen …
Quid Pro Quos of Writing.
A friend recently admired a long line of UK non-fiction magazine issues that I get twice a year and then looked at the price and blinked. “Wow, they cost!” Yes, they do, because although they aren’t gloss-covers, they are over 80 pages in foolscap per issue, feature some very well-known names in mystery fiction in …
New story sale
Yes, The Third Floor sold to Ray Bradbury Tribute anthology – Dandelions of Mars – coming out soon from Whortleberry Press.The thing about the story is that I originally wrote it back in 1987 for a competition being held by the Australian SF Foundation for Best Unpublished Story. That was allied to their National Convention …
Busy still
the revision for my collection of SF/F cat stories, now officially titled Katalagein, progresses, but as I’m also scrambing to clear articles and reviews owed in several places, it’s keeping me hopping. One of the most recent articles has been a furious “While Stocks Last” legal Trickery, which appeared in our local newspaper recently and …
Sir Julius Vogel Award Nominations out.
My collaborator (Sharman Horwood) and I were delighted to note that our time travel/alternate history Sf novel, QUEEN OF IRON YEARS is on the official ballot. Should this book win it will, so far as I know, be the first GLBT-themed fiction to have won a Vogel, (or indeed to have won any of that …
Newspaper Articles
I’ve had three in our local paper in the past few weeks. I write articles that are hints, tips and cheap remedies, mostly while saving cash, and I do a few articles whenever I feel the inclination. The paper slushpiles them and they’re used as a Saturday feature when there’s a gap. March saw articles …
Story sold – and Out.
Yes, not that it was telescoped to quite the extent it appears from the above, but I was late-ish sending it in, and the anthology seems to have broken the speed record getting here after publication too. So, I can announce both that I sold The Mystery of Lucky to Strange Lucky Mysteries 5, and …
Short Story Sold
Hadrosaur Press does a good magazine entitled Tales of the Talisman, and in the past year I’ve been happy to find two stories accepted. The first, a brutal weird Western entitled, I shall Do Nothing, is due out shortly. This second sale is of my fantasy noir story, Realities. TotT seems to prefer my more …