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Aurealis #44 Review
Over at the SF Site, prolific short-fiction reviewer Rich Horton has looked at the fiction offerings from Aurealis #44. Of my story "gunning for a tinkerman", he says: "Jason Fischer offers another piece in the same milieu as his story from #42, "for want of a...
Datlow Honorable Mention list & last minute Ditmar touting
Ellen Datlow has just released the extended Honorable Mention list from her reading for Best Horror of the Year Vol 3. I was very pleased to see my story "gunning for a tinkerman" (Aurealis #44) rated a mention, and was also happy to see several of my esteemed...
Natural Selection
Making sense of a spicy post-Mexican dream 🙂
Over at Diabolical Plots, reviewer Frank Dutkiewicz has picked up Writers of the Future Vol XXVI, and undertook the mammoth task of reviewing each individual story and grading it. I get the impression that he does this every year? That's a top job....
Midnight Echo #5, about to be released into the wild
Check out this bad boy: That's right, issue #5 of Midnight Echo is about to go live. This issue contains two of my stories, "Hunting Rufus" and "Goggy", winner of this year's AHWA Flash Fiction competition. The added bonus - both pieces are actually written in the...
Australian Shadows Award, and some good news from Tangent Online
The shortlist for the 2010 Australian Shadows Award has just been released, and can be read here: http://australianhorror.com/index.php?view=256 Basically this is the Aussie version of the Stoker, and has been recognising our growing pool of horror writing talent for...
“The House of Nameless” now available as a free e-book
My Writers of the Future winning story "The House of Nameless" is now available on Smashwords as a free e-book, available in several different formats. While I've ostensibly released this free version onto the world for Ditmar reasons (with the full blessing of the...
Project Lucy, and the fuel that gives it rotten life
Project Lucy Not much more to add, but it's coming together beautifully, and it's nice to be nailing down the "ecology of the supernatural" that I've explored in the related short stories. In fiction I've always loved the use of ephemera, and in the jesusman stories...
So you can tell when it’s Deep Space Nine O’Clock?
You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely look after it for The Next Generation? PICARD WANTS YOUR EXPENSIVE WATCH. The end.
State of the Gauntlet
I'll admit, there was a recent moment of doubt. A respectable pile of writing and auxilliary writing goals was starting to pile up on me there. There's a looming grant application, Project Lucy, some extensive edits for a commissioned piece, and the workload for...
Well, this is it Ma, time to pimp that Ditmar!
Once again we find ourselves rocketing towards the Aussie Natcon, which means that it's once more Ditmar Awards season. I hereby give you my annual shameless self-promoting blog post 🙂 the usual disclaimers apply, this list of my eligible works is for information...
